Re: [PATCH 2/2] checkout: introduce "--to-branch" option

ZheNing Hu [off-list ref] writes:

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It is unclear if you mean "dev1" exactly point at the commit tagged
as v1.1, or you want the branch "dev1" that is a descedanant of
v1.1.  Without telling that to the reader, the above explanation is
useless.

I meant the former.

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And whether you meant the former or the latter, neither use case does
not make much sense.
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So, "--to-branch v1.1" that finds and checks out a branch whose tip
exactly points at v1.1 would be pretty useless.

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"git branch --contains v1.1" can find all branches whose history contains the
 commit tagged as v1.1. So what if "git checkout --contains v1.1"?

I already said, whether you meant "the only branch that points
exactly at" or "the only branch that contains", the feature does not
make sense.  Forcing users to keep only a single branch that either
points at a given tag is simply impossible and also useless.  Once
the branch gains even a single commit, it will no loger be pointing
at the tag, so "let's prepare a branch pointing at v1.1 just in case
when I want to start working from there" would not be a good
workflow to begin with.  Forcing users to keep only a single branch
that contains a given tag would encourage even a worse workflow to
throw in unrelated things, whose only commonality is that they all
want to fork from a single tag, into a single branch.

IOW, there is nothing we want to add to "git checkout/switch" for
this topic.  "git checkout --contains $tag" smells like a solution
looking for a problem.