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From: Erick Mattos <erick.mattos@gmail.com>
To: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] teach git-checkout -B WAS builtin/checkout: DWIM with  -f -b
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:30:27 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTimvSubp07W7ylRZVOrBTYtfsdkD6R5HRIiz080C@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikBFKdeuqQZOTRzxKE_6nR3bNDDsEtGIJVT0nhz@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

2010/6/21 Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Right now, the -f/--force in git-checkout doesn't carry over to -b
>> operations - ie. you can't do git checkout -b branch on an existing
>> branch.
>>
>> This patch allows you to do this with the -B option, so that one can do
>>
>>  git checkout -B branch ref
>>
>> which is equivalent to
>>
>>  git branch -f branch ref && git checkout branch

If I need to do that, I would do: git checkout branch && git reset --hard ref.

Another way to do it is: git branch -D branch && git checkout -b branch ref.

So, we have enough porcelain commands to do it.  I would recommend a
second thought to see if your refinement is really necessary.  I would
agree so if those procedures are needed very often.

> Erick, does this series change how --orphan should be used?

If you be careful It won't make any change.  I will comment that on
the series if needed.

Thanks very much for asking.

Kind regards

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-21 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-20 16:33 [PATCH 0/3] DWIM with "git checkout -f -b" Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-20 16:33 ` [PATCH 1/3] add tests for checkout -b Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-20 16:33   ` [PATCH 2/3] t2018-checkout-branch.sh: show that checkout -f -b doesn't DWIM Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-20 16:33     ` [PATCH 3/3] builtin/checkout: DWIM with -f -b Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-20 19:12       ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-20 20:11         ` Jeff King
2010-06-20 21:07           ` Clemens Buchacher
2010-06-20 21:10           ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-20 21:16             ` Jeff King
2010-06-21  0:09               ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-21  1:08                 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-21  5:15                   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-21 17:19                     ` [PATCH 0/3] teach git-checkout -B WAS " Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-21 17:19                       ` [PATCH 1/3] add tests for checkout -b Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-21 17:19                         ` [PATCH 2/3] builtin/checkout: change -b from an OPTION_STRING to a OPTION_SET_INT Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-21 17:19                           ` [PATCH 3/3] builtin/checkout: learn -B Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-23 18:36                             ` Junio C Hamano
2010-06-23 19:13                               ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-21 23:04                           ` [PATCH 2/3] builtin/checkout: change -b from an OPTION_STRING to a OPTION_SET_INT Erick Mattos
2010-06-23 19:04                             ` Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-23 21:37                               ` Erick Mattos
2010-06-21 17:24                       ` [PATCH 0/3] teach git-checkout -B WAS builtin/checkout: DWIM with -f -b Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-21 21:30                         ` Erick Mattos [this message]
2010-06-23 19:28                       ` [PATCH v2 " Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-23 19:28                         ` [PATCH v2 1/3] add tests for checkout -b Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-23 19:28                           ` [PATCH v2 2/3] builtin/checkout: reword hint for -b Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-23 19:29                             ` [PATCH v2 3/3] builtin/checkout: learn -B Tay Ray Chuan
2010-06-21  2:58               ` [PATCH 3/3] builtin/checkout: DWIM with -f -b Michel Lespinasse
2010-06-21  4:09                 ` Michel Lespinasse

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