From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:33:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Extend "checkout --track" DWIM to support more cases
Message-ID: <76718490808221633y1da9d790j53df67f5c968915e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080821172320.GA5119@blimp.local>

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> +If no '-b' option was given, the name of the new branch will be
> +derived from the remote branch, by attempting to guess the name of the
> +branch on remote system and use it. The algorithm will remove a
> +prefixed refs/ and the part after refs/ up to a slash (that part
> +usually being a branch namespace, which makes it confusing to use for
> +branch names). If the part after refs/ was remotes/, than a part past

s/than/then/

j.