Re: [PATCH/RFC] builtin-checkout: suggest creating local branch when appropriate to do so

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 6, 2009, 10:04 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910061151420.4686@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <237967ef0910060241q671baafav93fe6402a4c510c5@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Mikael Magnusson wrote:

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> I can imagine this happening:
> % git clone git://git.git git
> % git checkout next
> do you want to checkout origin/next? y
> # a few days later
> % git fetch
> % git checkout next
> [freenode] /join #git
> [#git] i did git checkout next but my files are still the same?

I imagined more something like this:

$ git clone git://git.git git $ git checkout next Automatically checking out local branch 'next' tracking 'origin/next'. Please update it with 'git pull'.

Ciao, Dscho

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