Re: [PATCH] Extend "checkout --track" DWIM to support more cases
2008/8/22 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
> I however wonder if this is clearer.
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> * "enum branch_track" was unsigned; comparing equality with -1 was Ok but
> we couldn't say 0 < opts.track;
>
> * argv[] is an array of constant strings; cannot point into it with
> opts.newbranch without making the latter also a constant string.
Cleanup, but it is unrelated, isn't it?
> * the logic is to strip "refs/" if there is one, "remotes/" if there is
> one after that, and then strip one level after that unconditionally.
> No need to look explicitly for a slash while doing the first two steps.
Maybe that should go in documentation instead of the piece I wrote