spinoff can look at push branches too #5142
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I often wish I had something like
magit-branch-spinoff
but that respectedpushRemote
instead of merely checking the "upstream" of the branch. I tried to surface this need in #4822 but today I looked more closely at the code and I thought I could see a way to implement it easily, so I thought I would upgrade my discussion into a PR.I tried to test this by:
C-x C-e
on my changed versionb s
to create a new branch calledbloop
bloop
contained the new commit and was based off the pushed state of the feature branchThanks for your efforts on magit!