From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:23:26 GMT
Subject: Re: DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1006051423000.30664@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <20100605150225.GA16594@localhost>

On Sat, 5 Jun 2010, Clemens Buchacher wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:03:30PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 15:58, Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> wrote:
> > 
> > > I could not make much sense of the thread that came with the patch.
> > > The discussion first seems to conclude that it is a bad idea, only
> > > to implement it anyway.
> > 
> > I think it would be useful here to have some links to relevant posts,
> > or at least to the relevant thread.
> 
> The discussion ends with this posting
> http://mid.gmane.org/7viqesz3mk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org ,
> which basically says "we all agree this is bad."
> 
> Then Junio changes his mind his mind and posts the patches.
> http://mid.gmane.org/7vzl7pyvzl.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org
> 
> Whether the feature has merit or not is suddenly not an issue any
> more and the discussion veers off in other directions about minor
> technical details and about the --nodwim/--noguess option, the
> notion of which I find ridiculous by the way. But it further
> illustrates how random and anti-DWIM this feature really is.

Amen.


Nicolas