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* right click on a remote branch * select create branch * the local branch is named for the active task, with no option to name it the same as the remote branch It's great that there's support for naming branches based on the active task, but there should be a way to get back the old behaviour when you want it.
What do you mean with "active task". Mylyn tasks?
Yes, that's what I meant.
I tried it out: when I have an active task, select a remote tracking branch and say "create branch" then I get a dialog where I can type in the new branch name. That field is prefilled with a text based on the name of the active task. I see the remote branch name also. So, I could type in a new name (e.g. a name based on the branch name of the remote branch). What is your suggestion now? Do you want a preference in EGit telling "no, I never want branch names suggested baseed on active task names". Or do you want in the dialog where you could type in the branch name somehow multiple suggestions: one suggestion coming from core egit telling the branch should be named based on the remote branch name. And another suggestion coming from mylyn based on active task name. (There may be even more suggestions possible: if we detect you work with gerrit and you create branches on tags called "changes/14/791614/1" then a branch name "changes/791614" may be nice)
I'm not sure what UI I would want but there ought to be a way to display multiple suggestions. EGit has an extension point that allows other bundles to contribute different suggestions (this is where the active task suggestion comes from), but currently it just uses the first one it finds, so if there were multiple such contributions, the one used would depend on the order in which the bundles loaded. Perhaps a dropdown with the different suggestions would be appropriate.
I also think having a drop-down list with the multiple suggestions would be nice. If there is only one suggestion then the entry field could be pre-filled with that. But in the case you describe there should be two suggestions: one from mylyn based on active-task-name and one from egit core based on remote-branch-name. I think that's a enhancement request.
Maybe, but the thing is, the previous enhancement to add extensibility for suggesting branch names wasn't really completed, so it broke the standard Git behaviour of using the remote branch name. So this is arguably a regression.
