From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:00:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"
Message-ID: <20091018120053.GA11391@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <20091018193448.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>

On 2009.10.18 19:34:48 +0900, Nanako Shiraishi wrote:
> Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> 
> > When 'frotz' is not a valid object name nor a tracked filename,
> > we used to complain and failed this command.  When there is only
> > one remote that has 'frotz' as one of its tracking branches, we can
> > DWIM it as a request to create a local branch 'frotz' forking from
> > the matching remote tracking branch.
> 
> In the subject you used 'git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz'. Did you
> forget to say '-t'?

Hm, the DWIMmery only triggers when opts.track is
BRANCH_TRACK_UNSPECIFIED, i.e. -t was not used. And it doesn't change
opts.track when it DWIMs, so it respects branch.autosetupmerge, which
would be overriden by -t. So it seems correct that -t is not in there.

Björn