From: Simon Cheng <cyqsimon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:31:06 GMT
Subject: Remote tracking option hint for git-switch still shows git-checkout command
Message-ID: <CA+itcS0iyqNyzOP0cueLg7B3yadoEr_VWJ-QoL+YPFUPJiE2RQ@mail.gmail.com>

When `git-switch my-branch` is unable to guess a unique remote
tracking branch, the shown hint still displays an example with the
`git-checkout` command.

❯ git switch my-branch
hint: If you meant to check out a remote tracking branch on, e.g. 'origin',
hint: you can do so by fully qualifying the name with the --track option:
hint:
hint:     git checkout --track origin/<name>
hint:
hint: If you'd like to always have checkouts of an ambiguous <name> prefer
hint: one remote, e.g. the 'origin' remote, consider setting
hint: checkout.defaultRemote=origin in your config.
fatal: 'my-branch' matched multiple (2) remote tracking branches

Of course that works too, but it keeps the user guessing whether the
`--track` option also exists for `git-switch`. Not to mention that
`git-checkout` is now largely superseded by `git-switch` and
`git-restore` and is no longer recommended, as far as I understand it.

So I think it makes sense to either:
1. make the recommended command match the one ran by the user, or
2. always recommend `git-switch` as opposed to `git-checkout`

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