On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > > Last time I checked, those geneticists did not clone thin air.  They 
> > > always waited until they had something to clone.
> > 
> > But we're not geneticists, and I think the above usage should "just work 
> > (tm)".
> 
> I am still convinced that it is not very intelligent to start your 
> development from a non-existing branch.

Well, that's an orthogonal question and I'm not providing any opinion 
about that.

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> But since you're one of the people knowing git _internals_ pretty well, 
> here's another reason just for you why this cannot be done: There is no 
> way to find out where the HEAD points to.

So?  Why couldn't you just do the 'git remote add' dance implicitly in 
that case anyway?


Nicolas
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