From: Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:54:40 GMT
Subject: Re: 'git branch' when origin branch with same name exists
Message-ID: <4FE0A0C0.2080409@desrt.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4FE09C39.50702@elegosoft.com>

hi Michael,

On 12-06-19 11:35 AM, Michael Schubert wrote:
> This very much violates the distributed nature of Git. Everything
> is allowed, because it's *my* repository.

It is certainly allowed, as originally mentioned, with a --force option 
of some kind.

It is only prevented by default because it is likely you are making a 
mistake...

Cheers