Subject: Re: 'git branch' when origin branch with same name exists

From: Ryan Lortie <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:54:40 -0400

hi Michael,

On 12-06-19 11:35 AM, Michael Schubert wrote:
> This very much violates the distributed nature of Git. Everything
> is allowed, because it's *my* repository.

It is certainly allowed, as originally mentioned, with a --force option 
of some kind.

It is only prevented by default because it is likely you are making a 
mistake...

Cheers