Re: DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"

From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Date: Jun 8, 2010, 18:13 UTC
Message-ID: <20100608181353.GA3083@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20100608075241.GA3166@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 03:52:42AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

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>   $ git checkout foo
>   Branch private set up to track remote branch foo from origin.
>   Switched to a new branch 'foo'
> 
>   ... time passes ...
> 
>   $ git checkout foo
>   Switched to branch 'foo'
>   Your branch is behind 'origin/foo' by 5 commits, and can be fast-forwarded.

I see. That really is somewhat reassuring. I still do not like it, but considering the fact that I could not come up with a scenario worse than that, I suppose the feature is not as bad as I made it out to be.

Thanks all for discussing it with me anyways.

Regards, Clemens