From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:49:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] builtin-checkout: suggest creating local branch when appropriate to do so
Message-ID: <7vr5t89qiw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200910122340.13366.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> Your idea is also a backwards incompatible change, so we can just as
> well implement the original suggestion and force scripts (or us) to
> use some other means when they want to detach.  Say, why not just
> invent an option along the lines of
>
>   git checkout {-d|--detach} $ref
>
> to make it explicit.

Or can't you go the other way, say

	git checkout -t $remote_tracking

to create a local branch forking from the named remote tracking branch?