Re: DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Jun 8, 2010, 00:25 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTilccgKxO7YCTJYc5rTzhov5Tku2z8jSfWU_B4ui@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100607185439.GB17343@localhost>

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> wrote:

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>> then be annoyed that they had to type all those boilerplate args when
>> git clearly knew what they wanted to do... and that would be the case
>> every time from then on...
>
> Why should the user make the same mistake over and over again?

What I mean is that every time thereafter that they want that functionality (making a remote branch local), they'll have to type the "long form".

> And it makes me sad that you think it silly to even talk about it.

I don't think it's silly to note your concern, I think it's silly to put a fair amount of effort into a campaign for its removal, which is what you are doing. If new points can be made, fair enough, but so far it seems mainly a lot of back and forth stating the same things over and over.

> I believe that it's because of things like this that many users
> still consider git to be complicated and hard to use. That's what
> really bothers me.

Why do you think that? I mean, you could be right, but it's certainly conceivable that this feature causes users to consider git _simpler_ to use, because it lets them think about local branches only.

-Miles

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