git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: 'git branch' when origin branch with same name exists

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 19, 2012, 21:32 UTC
Message-ID
<7v8vfjyolq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To
<4FE0E493.1010308@desrt.ca>
Ryan Lortie <desrt@desrt.ca> writes:
Show 11 quoted lines
> So to restate the feature request more clearly: "git branch X" with no
> explicitly specified start-point should prevent the branch "X" from
> being created when a branch with the same name already exists on a
> remote (perhaps only considering 'origin').
>
> When stated in this more explicit way, it becomes clear that a --force
> option would not even be required; you could just say:
>
>   git branch gtk-3-4 HEAD
>
> to make it clear that this was your intention.

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.

Previous: Ryan LortieNext: Ryan Lortie
Message 13 of 19 in “'git branch' when origin branch with same name exists”
  1. Ryan LortieJun 19, 2012
  2. jaseem abidJun 19, 2012
  3. Michael SchubertJun 19, 2012
  4. Ryan LortieJun 19, 2012
  5. Philippe VaucherJun 19, 2012
  6. Angus HammondJun 19, 2012
  7. Konstantin KhomoutovJun 19, 2012
  8. Ryan LortieJun 19, 2012
  9. Andreas EricssonJun 20, 2012
  10. Thomas RastJun 19, 2012
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2012
  12. Ryan LortieJun 19, 2012
  13. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2012
  14. Ryan LortieJun 19, 2012
  15. Phil HordJun 19, 2012
  16. Junio C HamanoJun 20, 2012
  17. Matthieu MoyJun 20, 2012
  18. Junio C HamanoJun 20, 2012
  19. Junio C HamanoJun 19, 2012

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.