Re: [PATCH 2/3] DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 18, 2009, 22:50 UTC
Message-ID: <7vvdicmi4k.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091019052043.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com>

Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@lavabit.com> writes:

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>>> In the subject you used 'git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz'. Did you
>>> forget to say '-t'?
>>
>> Hm, the DWIMmery only triggers when opts.track is
>> BRANCH_TRACK_UNSPECIFIED, i.e. -t was not used. And it doesn't change
>> opts.track when it DWIMs, so it respects branch.autosetupmerge, which
>> would be overriden by -t. So it seems correct that -t is not in there.
>
> I see.
>
> A user who always wants tracking can set the config option and use 
> the new "git checkout frotz" shortcut, but a user who usually 
> doesn't want tracking doesn't have the config option and when he 
> wants tracking only for this new branch he can explicitly say "git 
> checkout -t origin/frotz", right?

Correct.