From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce•org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam•org>
Cc: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain•net>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next CLI revamp
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:52:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081030145253.GK14786@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810301024300.13034@xanadu.home>
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam•org> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Sam Vilain wrote:
> > From: Sam Vilain <samv@vilain•net>
> >
> > For cross-command CLI changes to be effective, they need to be
> > cohesively planned. Add a planning document for this next set of
> > changes.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain•net>
> [...]
>
> > + * 'git checkout branch' would, if there is a remote branch called
> > + 'branch' on exactly one remote, do what
> > + 'git checkout -b branch thatremote/branch' does now. If it is
> > + ambiguous, it would be an error, forcing the explicit notation.
>
> I can't do otherwise but disagree with this. Currently, when a remote
> branch is checked out, the commit corresponding to that remote branch is
> put on a detached head which is IMHO completely sane and coherent. It
> even tells you how to create a local branch from there if that's what
> you wanted to do. So if it is still too confusing at that point then
> more explanations are needed and not the removal of a perfectly fine
> feature. Please don't change that behavior.
+1 to Nico's NAK.
Although I was at the GitTogether I don't remember this change to
checkout being discussed. I must have been asleep reading email
or something. I am _NOT_ in favor of this change; I think the
current behavior of "git checkout origin/master" is correct and as
sane as we can make it.
--
Shawn.
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Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-30 3:48 [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next CLI revamp Sam Vilain
2008-10-30 10:55 ` Stefan Karpinski
2008-10-31 11:38 ` Kyle Moffett
2008-10-30 13:24 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-30 15:25 ` Julian Phillips
2008-10-31 0:34 ` Jeff King
2008-11-02 21:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-03 13:47 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-30 14:34 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-30 14:52 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2008-10-30 14:59 ` Mike Hommey
2008-10-30 15:01 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-30 16:53 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-30 17:31 ` Sam Vilain
2008-10-30 18:28 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-30 22:46 ` Yann Dirson
2008-10-30 23:28 ` Sam Vilain
2008-10-30 23:55 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-31 6:51 ` Sam Vilain
2008-10-31 7:36 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-11-03 8:43 ` Sam Vilain
2008-11-03 12:06 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-11-01 0:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-30 14:39 ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-30 14:43 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-30 16:30 ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-30 16:43 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-30 17:44 ` Sam Vilain
2008-10-30 17:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-11-02 6:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-02 10:09 ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-30 15:02 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-01 19:57 ` Elijah Newren
2008-10-30 15:20 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-10-30 17:00 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-30 17:03 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-30 17:17 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-10-30 18:06 ` Sam Vilain
2008-11-02 22:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-03 6:01 ` Sam Vilain
2008-11-01 19:42 ` Elijah Newren
2008-10-30 17:51 ` Sam Vilain
2008-10-30 23:27 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-01 20:27 ` Elijah Newren
2008-11-02 1:06 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-02 4:41 ` Elijah Newren
2008-11-01 19:26 ` Elijah Newren
2008-11-02 22:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-01 18:36 ` Elijah Newren
[not found] <20081030002239.D453B21D14E@mail.utsl.gen.nz>
2008-10-31 0:31 ` Jeff King
2008-10-31 6:40 ` Sam Vilain
2008-10-31 8:20 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-02 4:18 ` Jeff King
2008-11-02 9:56 ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-31 16:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-11-02 3:42 ` Jeff King
2008-11-02 3:53 ` Jeff King
2008-11-02 22:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-03 5:59 ` Sam Vilain
2008-11-03 9:48 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-11-03 9:53 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-11-04 9:18 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-11-04 18:10 ` Sam Vilain
2008-11-04 19:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-05 3:05 ` Jeff King
2008-11-05 6:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-05 22:53 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-11-03 6:56 ` Jeff King
2008-11-03 6:59 ` Jeff King
2008-11-03 9:25 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-03 23:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-04 0:02 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-11-04 0:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-11-04 5:20 ` Jeff King
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