From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:52:40 GMT
Subject: Re: DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"
Message-ID: <AANLkTiljpUDEYKar1ni-lvTMvGEKvM5o7cb95qn798Ok@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100608072958.GA24302@localhost>

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> wrote:
> Eventually, if they are lucky, they will learn in #git that they
> were supposed to "git merge <remote>/X."

They don't have to do that, they just have to do "git pull".  This
concept -- that to get the latest changes, one pulls -- is something
people learn very early.

So, in fact it seems quite natural -- you switch to a local branch
with "git co branch", and then if git tells you it's not up-to-date,
you "git pull".  All nice and smooth and simple and standard.  The
DWIM simply makes the first time less clumsy, and while everybody
benefits, beginners probably benefit a bit more.

-Miles

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