Re: Difficulties in advertising a new branch to git newbies

Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:

> On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:37:42 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:
>>
>> > So, could we fix this so that a remote branch name will resolve
>> > without the "origin/" prefix if it is not ambiguous?
>>
>> I am fairly negative on this one, especially I do not think the
>> symptom deserves to be described with the word "fix".  DWIM is
>> good, but it has bounds, and this particular one feels it is
>> slightly on the other side of the boundary.
>
> I can accept that argument.
>
> With "fix" I was referring to the backwards-compatibility problem,
> (that I don't have a way to give branch checkout instructions to users
> that will work for both 1.5 and pre-1.5 versions of git).

If you tell your users to --use-separate-remote in the "git
clone" instruction, would that solve your backward compatibility
problem?

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