Re: DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"

From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Jun 7, 2010, 06:41 UTC
Message-ID: <buobpbnz6mh.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100606164642.GA10104@localhost>

Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at> writes:

> The suggestion above would be perfect. It is an easy and obvious
> solution, and the user is even educated about their mistake.

Of course, having been educated as to what's going on, the user would then be annoyed that they had to type all those boilerplate args when git clearly knew what they wanted to do... and that would be the case every time from then on...

I think this DWIM is actually pretty convenient, and very often does reflect what the user intuitively is trying to do when giving such args.

Given that git _does_ tell you what it's doing, and that it's easy enough to delete the new branch if it wasn't really wanted, it seems pretty harmless as well. A campaign to delete this feature seems kind of silly...

-Miles

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