From: Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:50:24 GMT
Subject: Re: 'git branch' when origin branch with same name exists
Message-ID: <4FE0F420.4030604@desrt.ca>
In-Reply-To: <7v8vfjyolq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

hi,

On 12-06-19 05:32 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Won't happen.  "git branch new-branch-name" has always been the way
> to create from HEAD.  Suddenly requiring an extra argument is a
> grave usability regression.

Reminder: we're talking only about the case where an unrelated branch 
with the same name already exists upstream...

Cheers