Re: DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:54 AM, Clemens Buchacher [off-list ref] wrote:

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then be annoyed that they had to type all those boilerplate args when
git clearly knew what they wanted to do... and that would be the case
every time from then on...

Why should the user make the same mistake over and over again?

What I mean is that every time thereafter that they want that
functionality (making a remote branch local), they'll have to type the
"long form".

And it makes me sad that you think it silly to even talk about it.

I don't think it's silly to note your concern, I think it's silly to
put a fair amount of effort into a campaign for its removal, which is
what you are doing.  If new points can be made, fair enough, but so
far it seems mainly a lot of back and forth stating the same things
over and over.

I believe that it's because of things like this that many users
still consider git to be complicated and hard to use. That's what
really bothers me.

Why do you think that?  I mean, you could be right, but it's certainly
conceivable that this feature causes users to consider git _simpler_
to use, because it lets them think about local branches only.

-Miles

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