From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:46:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach "git branch" about --new-workdir
Message-ID: <f80mbc$si1$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707222302170.19212@reaper.quantumfyre.co.uk>

Julian Phillips wrote:

> I just think that to a user it feels like a checkout operation ... and 
> that would less confusing as an option to checkout.  Trying to explain 
> that branch just creates a new branch, unless you give this option then it 
> creates a working copy over there seems more compilcated than saying the 
> checkout updates/creates this working copy, unless you use this option to 
> create one over there.

IMVHO git-checkout is characterized that it changes _current_ working
directory. But having this in git-checkout would mean that you can create
new workdir for _existing_ branch. git-branch is rather (except from
listing) for creating new branches.

It is a fact that functionalities of git-checkout (-b) and git-branch
(--new-work-dir) intersect a bit.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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