From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:26:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] builtin-checkout: suggest creating local branch when appropriate to do so
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e0910051426n7f4f8602l8fad733ac3ba82b3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0910052314580.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

Heya,

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 23:17, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Actually, we should really think long and hard why we should not
> automatically check out the local branch "next" in that case.  I mean,
> really long and hard, and making sure to take user-friendliness into
> account at least as much as simplicity of implementation.

If git was a little more interactive I'd say prompt the user, problem solved?

$ git checkout next
No such branch 'next', do you want to check out a local branch for
'origin/next' instead? [Y/n]

@jay: you assume that if there is more than one matching remote the
user is experienced (as they have multiple remotes) enough to know
what to do?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier