Re: [PATCH/RFC] builtin-checkout: suggest creating local branch when appropriate to do so

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 13, 2009, 20:53 UTC
Message-ID: <7vljjfuibr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0910131358000.32515@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> writes:

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> I suspect that a very common pattern for people who follow trees for 
> testing and such or who only develop in topic branches is:
> ...
> << many issues with this kind of DWIM omitted >>
> ...
> On the second cycle, either git refuses or does something actively 
> confusing to this user, and the user has to learn the difference between 
> local branches and remote branches on the *second* cycle. IMHO, it's much 
> better to make users learn things at the point when they don't think they 
> know how to use the system, rather than when they think they understand it 
> and are just trying to get things done.

Yeah, and I think J6t pointed out the same issue.

I think it tells us something, after some of "the most trusted Git contributors" thought "really long and hard, and making sure to take user-friendliness into account at least as much as simplicity of implementation", they are getting to the same conclusion that this particular DWIMery is a misguided attempt to be helpful without really helping but rather hurting the users.

I will stop trying to come up with a strawman for other people's itch that I do not agree to begin with, at least for now. I will still look at concrete and workable proposals from other people, though.