Re: [PATCH] New git-seek command with documentation and test.

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Feb 24, 2006, 21:48 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602242246430.11479@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <87oe0wrg29.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

Hi,

On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Carl Worth wrote:

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> On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:00:29 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > 
> > I've said it before, and I'll say it again. This tool provides less 
> > flexibility and much less power than "git checkout -b branch 
> > <commit-ish>"
> 
> Yes, that's by design. It's not intended to be a replacement for git
> checkout -b.

I do not really understand why.

git-seek shares so many characteristics with git-seek, you could make git-seek just another command line option to checkout (like "--temporary" and "--go-back").

Hth, Dscho

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