Re: [PATCH/RFC] builtin-checkout: suggest creating local branch when appropriate to do so

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 14, 2009, 10:46 UTC
Message-ID: <m3k4yyfe1z.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <200910141156.55536.trast@student.ethz.ch>

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

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> So I think we're now mixing up two different goals in this thread:
> a) Stopping the users from hurting themselves by inadvertent detaching
> b) Helping the users by DWIMming local branches for them
> 
> I'm all for (a), but (b) is much harder.

Perhaps (b) should be protected by branch.autocreatelocal (similar to branch.autosetupmerge and branch.autosetuprebase).

Also we should always print a message if we DWIM creating or checking out local branch equivalent to remote-tracking branch.

Also, why interactive checkout (checkout --interactive?) idea was abandoned?

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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