Re: What's in git.git (stable)

quoted

 * git-branch is not verbose enough when creating a new
 branch, for a new user a little reassurance that what they
 meant to happen has happened would be nice.

The same comment applies here.  

However, perhaps you could make lack of "[user] expert = true"
in ~/.gitconfig to trigger more verbose messages that say "yes
sir I did what I was told to do".

Not interested in implementing that myself at all, though.

quoted

 Tell them if they
 made a branch as well, which branch they are now on.

I think you are talking about "checkout -b" not commit here;
this might be a borderline (branch creation is less often done
and it might warrant assuring feedback), but I think it still
falls into the "doing exactly what it was told to do" category.

Yes. checkout -b works. But only _if_ you have read the manpage.
Someone thinking about branching at the current commit would just have

	git branch

in mind (so would I). Its not obvious to say

	git checkout -b <newbranchname> oldbranch

becouse checkout implies to advance to another version.

-Peter