From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:05:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] builtin-checkout: suggest creating local branch when appropriate to do so
Message-ID: <76718490910131805o42e8321ama85b90b7e901dc7d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910140117280.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> At some point, trying to educate the user is not helpful but annoying.  If
> Git already knows what I want, why does it not do it already?  _That_ is
> the question I already hear in my ears.

Modify checkout so that the first commit while detached automatically
creates a branch. Perhaps the name is derived from the branch point,
or the user is prompted for a name.

This doesn't help with the original problem, which was that a user
attempted to checkout refs/remotes/origin/<name> by just saying 'git
checkout <name>' which I happen to think should work. A lot of what I
keep hearing in this thread seems to be in the vein of the perfect
being the enemy of the good.

That rambled a bit. Sorry.

j.