Meeting notes about remotenames

Siddharth Agarwal sid at less-broken.com
Mon Mar 9 20:19:42 CDT 2015


On 02/28/2015 12:51 AM, Ryan McElroy wrote:
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>     Hoisting names
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> Hoisting refers to the the option to refer to a certain remote's names
> without the prefix. Eg, remote/master can be referred to as “master”
> but it will still show up in logs as “remote/master”.

I strongly believe that as part of the transition helpers, hoisting
should include disallowing local bookmarks with the same name. The whole
master vs origin/master distinction confuses many Git users and we
shouldn't repeat that particular mistake.


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