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From: Sam Vilain <sam@...>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...>
Cc: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@...>, Mike Hommey <mh@...>, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@...>, <git@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next CLI revamp
Date: Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 7:28 pm

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 14:28 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

Absolutely - if you've already got a branch "master", then
"git checkout master" should definitely give it to you.  If you go
"git checkout origin/master", you get a floating head.  But I quite often
find myself wanting to check out a remote branch, and give it a name just
like on the remote.  I want "git checkout blah" to assume that's
what I mean, until I make a local branch "blah".


Right - 'master' in this case resolves to something.  The ambiguity is
resolved by defaulting to the thing that resolves.  The fall-back
behaviour is only triggered if you asked for something that is currently
an error.  Because breaking expectations sucks.

Sam.

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[PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next ..., Sam Vilain, (Wed Oct 29, 11:48 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Elijah Newren, (Sat Nov 1, 2:36 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Theodore Tso, (Thu Oct 30, 10:39 am)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Junio C Hamano, (Sun Nov 2, 6:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Elijah Newren, (Sat Nov 1, 3:26 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Sam Vilain, (Thu Oct 30, 1:51 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Elijah Newren, (Sat Nov 1, 4:27 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Theodore Tso, (Sat Nov 1, 9:06 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Elijah Newren, (Sun Nov 2, 12:41 am)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Theodore Tso, (Thu Oct 30, 7:27 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Matthieu Moy, (Thu Oct 30, 11:20 am)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Elijah Newren, (Sat Nov 1, 3:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Nicolas Pitre, (Thu Oct 30, 1:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Pierre Habouzit, (Thu Oct 30, 1:03 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Junio C Hamano, (Sun Nov 2, 6:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Sam Vilain, (Mon Nov 3, 2:01 am)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Nicolas Pitre, (Thu Oct 30, 1:17 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Sam Vilain, (Thu Oct 30, 2:06 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Andreas Ericsson, (Thu Oct 30, 11:02 am)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Elijah Newren, (Sat Nov 1, 3:57 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Pierre Habouzit, (Thu Oct 30, 10:43 am)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Theodore Tso, (Thu Oct 30, 12:30 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Junio C Hamano, (Sun Nov 2, 2:08 am)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Theodore Tso, (Sun Nov 2, 6:09 am)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Nicolas Pitre, (Thu Oct 30, 1:03 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Pierre Habouzit, (Thu Oct 30, 12:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Sam Vilain, (Thu Oct 30, 1:44 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Nicolas Pitre, (Thu Oct 30, 10:34 am)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Shawn O. Pearce, (Thu Oct 30, 10:52 am)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Mike Hommey, (Thu Oct 30, 10:59 am)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Pierre Habouzit, (Thu Oct 30, 11:01 am)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Johannes Schindelin, (Fri Oct 31, 8:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Nicolas Pitre, (Thu Oct 30, 12:53 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Sam Vilain, (Thu Oct 30, 1:31 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Nicolas Pitre, (Thu Oct 30, 2:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Sam Vilain, (Thu Oct 30, 7:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Yann Dirson, (Thu Oct 30, 6:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Pierre Habouzit, (Thu Oct 30, 9:24 am)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Junio C Hamano, (Sun Nov 2, 5:53 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Pierre Habouzit, (Mon Nov 3, 9:47 am)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Jeff King, (Thu Oct 30, 8:34 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Julian Phillips, (Thu Oct 30, 11:25 am)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Stefan Karpinski, (Thu Oct 30, 6:55 am)
Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the n..., Kyle Moffett, (Fri Oct 31, 7:38 am)