Please make base branch name in “Create Branch” sheet selectable

[marcomasser]

I often create a branch whose name is derived from its base branch. For example, I have a branch named foo/bar and I want to create a new branch from that named foo/bar-2. For that, it’s useful to be able to easily reference the base branch’s name.

One way to do that would be to make the base branch’s name selectable in this sheet:

As a workaround, I often first rename the base branch to bring up the rename sheet where this is selectable, copy that, cancel the rename sheet, and then create the new branch. This is pretty cumbersome.

I think the alternative of pre-filling the text input field with the base branch’s name wouldn’t be very nice because this is pretty likely not what most users want most of the time and also it would immediately show a warning that the name is taken already.