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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	"Eric Sunshine" <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/4] worktree: make add <path> <branch> dwim
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 15:59:58 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq60a0noup.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171122223020.2780-4-t.gummerer@gmail.com> (Thomas Gummerer's message of "Wed, 22 Nov 2017 22:30:19 +0000")

Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> writes:

> Currently 'git worktree add <path> <branch>', errors out when 'branch'
> is not a local branch.   It has no additional dwim'ing features that one
> might expect.
>
> Make it behave more like 'git checkout <branch>' when the branch doesn't
> exist locally, but a remote tracking branch uniquely matches the desired
> branch name, i.e. create a new branch from the remote tracking branch
> and set the upstream to the remote tracking branch.
>
> As 'git worktree add' currently just dies in this situation, there are
> no backwards compatibility worries when introducing this feature.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
> ---

This step makes sense and I did not spot anything controversial.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-24  7:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailto:20171118224706.13810-1-t.gummerer@gmail.com>
2017-11-22 22:30 ` [PATCH v4 0/4] make git worktree add dwim more Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-22 22:30   ` [PATCH v4 1/4] checkout: factor out functions to new lib file Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-24  6:47     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-22 22:30   ` [PATCH v4 2/4] worktree: add --[no-]track option to the add subcommand Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-24  6:57     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-25 16:58       ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-22 22:30   ` [PATCH v4 3/4] worktree: make add <path> <branch> dwim Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-24  6:59     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-11-22 22:30   ` [PATCH v4 4/4] worktree: make add <path> dwim Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-24  7:11     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-25 17:50       ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-25 18:26         ` Paul Smith
2017-11-25 20:06           ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-25 20:39             ` Randall S. Becker
2017-11-25 21:48               ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-25 23:11             ` Paul Smith
2017-11-26  3:35         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-26 11:37           ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-26 19:43   ` [PATCH v5 0/6] make git worktree add dwim more Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-26 19:43     ` [PATCH v5 1/6] checkout: factor out functions to new lib file Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-26 19:43     ` [PATCH v5 2/6] worktree: add can be created from any commit-ish Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-26 19:43     ` [PATCH v5 3/6] worktree: add --[no-]track option to the add subcommand Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-26 19:43     ` [PATCH v5 4/6] worktree: make add <path> <branch> dwim Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-26 19:43     ` [PATCH v5 5/6] worktree: add --guess-remote flag to add subcommand Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-27  6:36       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-27 20:56         ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-26 19:43     ` [PATCH v5 6/6] add worktree.guessRemote config option Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-27  6:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2017-11-27 20:59         ` Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-29 20:04     ` [PATCH v6 0/6] make git worktree add dwim more Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-29 20:04       ` [PATCH v6 1/6] checkout: factor out functions to new lib file Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-29 20:04       ` [PATCH v6 2/6] worktree: add can be created from any commit-ish Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-29 20:04       ` [PATCH v6 3/6] worktree: add --[no-]track option to the add subcommand Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-29 20:04       ` [PATCH v6 4/6] worktree: make add <path> <branch> dwim Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-29 20:04       ` [PATCH v6 5/6] worktree: add --guess-remote flag to add subcommand Thomas Gummerer
2017-11-29 20:04       ` [PATCH v6 6/6] add worktree.guessRemote config option Thomas Gummerer

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