From: Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:18:40 GMT
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Message-ID: <ron1-D5CC8E.14184029012010@news.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7veil8h8rk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

In article <7veil8h8rk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>,
 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com> writes:
> 
> > Of course it's possible.  It git can complain and do something (which is 
> > what it does now) then it can just as easily complain and do nothing.
> 
> It is not complaining.  It is telling you that you might have triggered an
> advanced feature you may not be prepared to use yet.
> 
> So forbidding the advanced feature from everybody won't be a solution.

s/complain/warn/

I'm just suggesting that maybe triggering the advanced feature ought not 
to be such an easy thing to do by accident.  It's certainly possible to 
make that change.  Reasonable people could disagree over whether this is 
desirable, or whether it would be better to just add this to a FAQ 
somewhere, or maybe even just leave this as a rite of passage.  
Apparently I'm the first person to ever have this problem or it would 
not have triggered so much discussion.

rg