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

From: Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:51:21 +0200

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> Requiring starting point and failing without --force will never
> happen, but it could be a possible approach to issue an additional
> advice message under reasonably narrow conditions, namely:
>
>  - The starting point was not given explicitly;
>
>  - It would have DWIMed to "git checkout -t -b it origin/it" when
>    creating the branch (I think you need to check configurations
>    like branch.autosetupmerge and existence of the tracking branch
>    remotes/origin/it); and
>
>  - advice.branchNotTrackingCorrespondingRemote is not set to false.

I like that. Stg like

$ git branch next
Creating local branch next starting from <sha1>.
If you meant to checkout a new branch 'next' to track remote branch
'next' from 'origin', run these commands now:
git branch -d next; git checkout next

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/