[PATCH] checkout: add --fetch to fetch remote before resolving start-point
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> * "--track=inherit,direct" is nonsense and should be rejected
>
> * currently "--track" has "last one wins" behavior so
> "--track=inherit --track=direct" behaves like "--track=direct". We
> should probably keep that so that "--track=fetch --track=direct"
> behaves like "--track=direct", not "--track=fetch,direct"
>
> * if "git fetch" fails and the remote tracking ref already exists then
> we should print a warning and carry on rather than dying which is more
> convenient if the user or remote server are offline.
>
> * "git checkout --track=fetch origin/branch" should respect
> remote.origin.fetch so that we fetch the ref that we're going to
> checkout. I wonder if we can share this logic with the code that
> sets the upstream branch.
>
> * "git checkout --track=fetch origin" should only fetch the remote
> ref that we're going to checkout, not all the refs from origin. i.e.
> it should read origin/HEAD to work out what to fetch.