From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:25:40 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach "git branch" about --new-workdir
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707222223460.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707222205050.23426@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>

Hi,

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Julian Phillips wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > 	IMHO this is a better syntax than what is in contrib/, and "git
> > 	branch" is probably the right place for such a thing, from a
> > 	user's perspective.
> 
> Surely checkout would make more sense than branch?  You are effectively 
> checking out into a new directory ... also you may want to get an 
> existing branch (certainly most of my usage of new-workdir is checking 
> out existing branches, e.g. to look at - as in build and play with - an 
> interesting branch that someone else has pushed out).

My rationale here was:

- to make sure that the user cannot check out the same branch as in the 
  current repo, _or some other workdir of it_, and

- to have finer grained lock control, as well as respecting has_symlinks.

Ciao,
Dscho