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Bug 360540 - [client] Confusing workflow when pushing new branch
Summary: [client] Confusing workflow when pushing new branch
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 355108
Alias: None
Product: Orion
Classification: ECD
Component: Git (show other bugs)
Version: 0.3   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 normal (vote)
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Reported: 2011-10-11 09:40 EDT by Mark Macdonald CLA
Modified: 2011-10-14 09:28 EDT (History)
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Description Mark Macdonald CLA 2011-10-11 09:40:44 EDT 
Orion 0.3RC1 (0.2.0.v20111007-2111)

1. Create a new local branch.
2. Commit something on the branch.
3. Go to git-log, click "Push All".
4. The Choose Branch dialog appears. It lists existing remote branches. But there is no way to provide the name of a new remote branch to push to.
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2011-10-11 14:06:42 EDT 
It automatically creates a remote branch with the same name when I try this. Is the issue that you want to use a different name for the remote branch?
Comment 2 Mark Macdonald CLA 2011-10-11 14:26:42 EDT 
(In reply to comment #1)
> It automatically creates a remote branch with the same name when I try this. Is
> the issue that you want to use a different name for the remote branch?

Oops, I didn't realize that the new remote branch appears in the "Choose Branch" list. Forcing local and remote branches to have the same name is fine with me.
Comment 3 John Arthorne CLA 2011-10-12 16:32:41 EDT 
I had the same confusion the other day, which is how I came to know that the branch is shown. If you are pushing to a remote that already has many branches, it's confusing and you might not notice that it has added that extra branch name to the list. Maybe a simple improvement would be to select that branch by default so in the 99% case you can just hit Enter or click Ok when prompted for a branch.
Comment 4 Tomasz Zarna CLA 2011-10-14 07:36:16 EDT 
Mark, do you think we can mark this one as a dupe of bug 355108?
Comment 5 Mark Macdonald CLA 2011-10-14 09:28:54 EDT 
Yup

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 355108 ***