Re: [PATCH] Extend "checkout --track" DWIM to support more cases

> > 
> > No. It strips refs/ OR remotes/ (because of prefixcmp with argv[0]).
> > And I still wanted refs/<namespace>/something...
> 
> Yes, you are correct.  However, to fix my thinko, I deem this preferable:
> 
> -- snipsnap --
> 
>  builtin-checkout.c |    6 ++++--
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/builtin-checkout.c b/builtin-checkout.c
> index e95eab9..2a076cf 100644
> --- a/builtin-checkout.c
> +++ b/builtin-checkout.c
> @@ -448,8 +448,10 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>  		if (!argc || !strcmp(argv[0], "--"))
>  			die ("--track needs a branch name");
>  		slash = strchr(argv[0], '/');
> -		if (slash && !prefixcmp(argv[0], "refs/"))
> -			slash = strchr(slash + 1, '/');
> +		if (slash && !prefixcmp(argv[0], "refs/")) {
> +			argv[0] = slash + 1;
> +			slash = strchr(argv[0], '/');
> +		}