Re: Minor annoyance with git push

> Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:
> 
> > On Feb 8, 2008, at 8:48 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> >> Perhaps it might make sense to have a checkout hook that notices
> >> the branch that is being checked out is meant to build on top of
> >> a corresponding remote tracking branch, and performs the
> >> necessary fast-forward when that is the case.
> >
> > Or just print a warning that there are new commits on the
> > tracked branch and leave the decision how to proceed to
> > the user?
> 
> Yeah, that would be even safer.  And I do not mind if the "git
> checkout" learned to do so natively without needing of such a
> hook.