From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 02:08:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Convenient support of remote branches in git-checkout
Message-ID: <7v7iy89ffs.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vd5809fnh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> Josef Weidendorfer <Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> What do you think about the setup of the default for "git-pull"?
>
> I personally feel that is loading "checkout" with too many
> different things.
>
> It might be easier to maintain in the long term to have a helper
> command 'git-fork' to handle the gory details of forking off
> from an existing branch (merge default setting, branch creation,
> what else will we have next month? ;-) and perhaps automatically
> call it from git-checkout as a short-hand.

Ah, one should never open one's mouth before thinking things
twice and then sleeping on it.

I do not think we want a _new_ command.  It may make sense to
enrich 'git-branch' for that.

If "git-checkout -b" does not use 'git-branch' to create a new
branch in the current code, maybe we should, regardless of the
usability enhancements under discussion.