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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: checkout/branch needs some extra safety around the --track option
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:04:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vfwrpnjxr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201102151852.03881.johan@herland.net> (Johan Herland's message of "Tue\, 15 Feb 2011 18\:52\:03 +0100")

Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> writes:

> 1. When given "--track", branch/checkout should verify that the tracked 
> branch is indeed a branch (preferably a remote branch, although I guess 
> tracking a local branch can make sense in some situations). At least, 
> it should deny tracking a _tag_. Tracking a tag simply does not make 
> sense at all (unless you expect the tag to move, in which case it 
> should be a branch and not a tag).

Sensible, I think.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-15 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-15 17:52 checkout/branch needs some extra safety around the --track option Johan Herland
2011-02-15 20:04 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-02-16 10:46   ` [PATCH] branch/checkout --track: Ensure that upstream branch is indeed a branch Johan Herland
2011-02-16 22:00     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-16 23:12       ` [PATCH v2] " Johan Herland
2011-02-18  0:45         ` Martin von Zweigbergk
2011-02-18  4:32           ` Junio C Hamano

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