Re: [PATCH/RFC] builtin-checkout: suggest creating local branch when appropriate to do so
From: Jay Soffian <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:47:33
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:
At some point, trying to educate the user is not helpful but annoying. If Git already knows what I want, why does it not do it already? _That_ is the question I already hear in my ears.
Modify checkout so that the first commit while detached automatically creates a branch. Perhaps the name is derived from the branch point, or the user is prompted for a name. This doesn't help with the original problem, which was that a user attempted to checkout refs/remotes/origin/<name> by just saying 'git checkout <name>' which I happen to think should work. A lot of what I keep hearing in this thread seems to be in the vein of the perfect being the enemy of the good. That rambled a bit. Sorry. j.