New checkout --track behaviour?

Hello,

Did the interface change in recent git versions? I am pretty sure i used to git checkout -tb new_branch, now getting error: option `--track' expects "direct" or "inherit".

User `geirha` on libera#git helped me troubleshooting. They noticed that:

- git help checkout differs in its description of --track between
  2.34.1 (ubuntu 22.04) and 2.43.0 (ubuntu 24.04), so looks like it
  did change recently

- according to the commit message at
  https://github.com/git/git/commit/6327f0efed36c64d98a140110171362b7cb75a52,
  -t is supposed to be equivalent to --track=direct, so likely a bug
  rather than intentional change

I did read all options in `man git config` looking for something related. Found only branch.autoSetupMerge, but neither setting it to `always` nor `inherit` helped

Cheers, fran