From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:35:57 GMT
Subject: Re: git branch --track and remote branches with / in the name
Message-ID: <20070605113557.5803.qmail@81f254b7954e14.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v4plmd7kg.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 03:22:39AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> writes:
> > Hi, the --track option to git branch or git checkout doesn't work for
> > remote branches that contain a slash in the name:

> Indeed the "find matching remote tracking branch" code was
> somewhat sloppy and needlessly complex/clever.
> 
> How about this patch?

Works fine for me, including the selftest.  Thanks, Gerrit.