Re: git bug? + question

On Saturday 04 November 2006 20:05, Shawn Pearce wrote:

Josef Weidendorfer [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

 	git checkout origin/vmdvt

should create a new local branch refs/heads/vmdvt which forks
from remotes/origin/vmdvt (and abort with
error if refs/heads/vmdvt already exists without being the local
development branch for remotes/origin/vmdvt)

Yes, that would work for our workflow.  I won't try to speak about
anyone else's.

I'd also say that if the local branch (refs/heads/vmdvt) exists and
if `git pull . origin/vmdvt` is going to be a fast-forward that the
fast-forward should happen during the checkout.  That way after the
checkout is complete you really do have what is in origin/vmdvt,
but are sitting on a local branch.

Hmmm... But you are changing the tip of a local development branch,
which is probably not always the thing we want.

Thinking about it, we should always error out if a proposed branch
name for a read-only branch already exists.

Josef