From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>,
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] checkout & worktree: introduce checkout.implicitRemote
Date: Thu, 3 May 2018 17:14:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8CYp3zVSRtS5ozHCitnWU81AamqEGR8RZdDkwujShEatw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180503131840.27956-1-avarab@gmail.com>
On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 3:18 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> Introduce a checkout.implicitRemote setting which can be used to
> designate a remote to prefer (via checkout.implicitRemote=origin) when
> running e.g. "git checkout master" to mean origin/master, even though
> there's other remotes that have the "master" branch.
>
> I want this because it's very handy to use this workflow to checkout a
> repository and create a topic branch, then get back to a "master" as
> retrieved from upstream:
>
> (
> rm -rf /tmp/tbdiff &&
> git clone git@github.com:trast/tbdiff.git &&
> cd tbdiff &&
> git branch -m topic &&
> git checkout master
> )
>
> That will output:
>
> Branch 'master' set up to track remote branch 'master' from 'origin'.
> Switched to a new branch 'master'
>
> But as soon as a new remote is added (e.g. just to inspect something
> from someone else) the DWIMery goes away:
>
> (
> rm -rf /tmp/tbdiff &&
> git clone git@github.com:trast/tbdiff.git &&
> cd tbdiff &&
> git branch -m topic &&
> git remote add avar git@github.com:avar/tbdiff.git &&
> git fetch avar &&
> git checkout master
> )
>
> Will output:
>
> error: pathspec 'master' did not match any file(s) known to git.
>
> The new checkout.implicitRemote config allows me to say that whenever
> that ambiguity comes up I'd like to prefer "origin", and it'll still
> work as though the only remote I had was "origin".
>
> I considered splitting this into checkout.implicitRemote and
> worktree.implicitRemote, but it's probably less confusing to break our
> own rules that anything shared between config should live in core.*
> than have two config settings, and I couldn't come up with a short
> name under core.* that made sense (core.implicitRemoteForCheckout?).
I wonder if it's difficult to add a dwim hook that allows us to
replace the entire dwim logic with a hook? Doing this "preferring
origin" in a shell script should be easy and it lets us play more with
tweaking dwim logic. (Yeah sorry I'm getting off topic again)
--
Duy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-03 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-02 10:54 [PATCH] checkout & worktree: introduce a core.DWIMRemote setting Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-02 15:21 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-02 18:00 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-05-02 18:09 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-02 18:25 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-03 13:18 ` [PATCH v2] checkout & worktree: introduce checkout.implicitRemote Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-03 15:14 ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
2018-05-04 7:54 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-04 14:58 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-04 18:02 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-04 9:58 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-05-24 19:47 ` [PATCH v3] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-25 8:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-25 14:42 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-25 18:38 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-26 12:49 ` Duy Nguyen
2018-05-31 7:45 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-31 19:52 ` [PATCH v4 0/9] ambiguous checkout UI & checkout.defaultRemote Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-01 21:10 ` [PATCH v5 0/8] " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-02 11:50 ` [PATCH v6 " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-05 14:40 ` [PATCH v7 " Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-05 14:40 ` [PATCH v7 1/8] checkout tests: index should be clean after dwim checkout Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-05 15:45 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-07-27 17:48 ` [PATCH] tests: make use of the test_must_be_empty function Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-07-27 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-07-31 0:17 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-08-22 17:48 ` [PATCH] t6018-rev-list-glob: fix 'empty stdin' test SZEDER Gábor
2018-08-22 17:53 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-08-22 18:59 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-08-22 20:30 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-08-22 18:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-22 18:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-22 19:23 ` Jeff King
2018-08-22 19:50 ` [PATCH] rev-list: make empty --stdin not an error Jeff King
2018-08-22 20:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-22 21:37 ` Jeff King
2018-08-22 21:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-08-22 21:55 ` Jeff King
2018-08-22 21:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-05 14:40 ` [PATCH v7 2/8] checkout.h: wrap the arguments to unique_tracking_name() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-05 14:40 ` [PATCH v7 3/8] checkout.c: introduce an *_INIT macro Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-05 14:40 ` [PATCH v7 4/8] checkout.c: change "unique" member to "num_matches" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-05 14:40 ` [PATCH v7 5/8] checkout: pass the "num_matches" up to callers Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-05 14:40 ` [PATCH v7 6/8] builtin/checkout.c: use "ret" variable for return Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-05 14:40 ` [PATCH v7 7/8] checkout: add advice for ambiguous "checkout <branch>" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-05 14:40 ` [PATCH v7 8/8] checkout & worktree: introduce checkout.defaultRemote Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-02 11:50 ` [PATCH v6 1/8] checkout tests: index should be clean after dwim checkout Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-02 11:50 ` [PATCH v6 2/8] checkout.h: wrap the arguments to unique_tracking_name() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-02 11:50 ` [PATCH v6 3/8] checkout.c: introduce an *_INIT macro Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-02 11:50 ` [PATCH v6 4/8] checkout.c]: change "unique" member to "num_matches" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-02 11:50 ` [PATCH v6 5/8] checkout: pass the "num_matches" up to callers Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-02 11:50 ` [PATCH v6 6/8] builtin/checkout.c: use "ret" variable for return Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-02 11:50 ` [PATCH v6 7/8] checkout: add advice for ambiguous "checkout <branch>" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-02 11:50 ` [PATCH v6 8/8] checkout & worktree: introduce checkout.defaultRemote Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-03 7:58 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-06-01 21:10 ` [PATCH v5 1/8] checkout tests: index should be clean after dwim checkout Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-01 21:10 ` [PATCH v5 2/8] checkout.h: wrap the arguments to unique_tracking_name() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-01 21:10 ` [PATCH v5 3/8] checkout.[ch]: introduce an *_INIT macro Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-01 22:40 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-06-01 21:10 ` [PATCH v5 4/8] checkout.[ch]: change "unique" member to "num_matches" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-01 22:41 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-06-01 21:10 ` [PATCH v5 5/8] checkout: pass the "num_matches" up to callers Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-01 21:10 ` [PATCH v5 6/8] builtin/checkout.c: use "ret" variable for return Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-01 21:10 ` [PATCH v5 7/8] checkout: add advice for ambiguous "checkout <branch>" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-01 22:52 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-06-01 21:10 ` [PATCH v5 8/8] checkout & worktree: introduce checkout.defaultRemote Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-31 19:52 ` [PATCH v4 1/9] checkout tests: index should be clean after dwim checkout Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-01 4:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-01 19:43 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-31 19:52 ` [PATCH v4 2/9] checkout.h: wrap the arguments to unique_tracking_name() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-31 19:52 ` [PATCH v4 3/9] checkout.[ch]: move struct declaration into *.h Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-31 21:45 ` Thomas Gummerer
2018-06-01 2:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-01 9:56 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-31 19:52 ` [PATCH v4 4/9] checkout.[ch]: introduce an *_INIT macro Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-01 4:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-31 19:52 ` [PATCH v4 5/9] checkout.[ch]: change "unique" member to "num_matches" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-31 19:52 ` [PATCH v4 6/9] checkout: pass the "num_matches" up to callers Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-31 19:52 ` [PATCH v4 7/9] builtin/checkout.c: use "ret" variable for return Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-31 19:52 ` [PATCH v4 8/9] checkout: add advice for ambiguous "checkout <branch>" Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-01 4:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-01 5:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-01 9:54 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-04 1:58 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-01 9:50 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-06-01 7:53 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-06-01 19:59 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-31 19:52 ` [PATCH v4 9/9] checkout & worktree: introduce checkout.defaultRemote Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-31 21:49 ` Stefan Beller
2018-06-01 8:04 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-06-01 9:47 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-05-31 22:22 ` Thomas Gummerer
2018-06-01 2:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-05-04 7:14 ` [PATCH] checkout & worktree: introduce a core.DWIMRemote setting Eric Sunshine
2018-05-04 7:23 ` Eric Sunshine
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