From: Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:34:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"
Message-ID: <20091018193448.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vaazpxha4.fsf_-_@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

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'?

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Nanako Shiraishi
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