From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:04:32 GMT
Subject: Re: checkout/branch needs some extra safety around the --track option
Message-ID: <7vfwrpnjxr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201102151852.03881.johan@herland.net>

Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

> 1. When given "--track", branch/checkout should verify that the tracked 
> branch is indeed a branch (preferably a remote branch, although I guess 
> tracking a local branch can make sense in some situations). At least, 
> it should deny tracking a _tag_. Tracking a tag simply does not make 
> sense at all (unless you expect the tag to move, in which case it 
> should be a branch and not a tag).

Sensible, I think.