Re: [PATCH/RFC] builtin-checkout: suggest creating local branch when appropriate to do so

Hi,

On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Jay Soffian wrote:

A user who has just cloned a remote repository and wishes to then work on a
branch other than master may not realize they first need to create the local
branch. e.g.:

$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
$ cd git
$ git checkout next
error: pathspec 'next' did not match any file(s) known to git.

This commit teaches git to make a suggestion to the user:

$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
$ cd git
$ git checkout next
error: pathspec 'next' did not match any file(s) known to git.
To create a local branch from the same named remote branch, use
  git checkout -b next origin/next

Motivated by http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/129528

Actually, we should really think long and hard why we should not 
automatically check out the local branch "next" in that case.  I mean, 
really long and hard, and making sure to take user-friendliness into 
account at least as much as simplicity of implementation.

Ciao,
Dscho