From: Clemens Buchacher Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:13:53 GMT Subject: Re: DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz" 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: > > $ 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