Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next CLI revamp

[Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>]

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 08:36 +0100, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > >     git checkout --track origin/wr34251-do-something
> > 
> > Ah, that's a new feature.  Still, I think it's poorly Huffman coded; far
> > too verbose.
> 
> Well, either you have a little bit more verbose, or you have to have
> some DWIM-mery, which (as usual with DWIM) can go wrong.

That's right, you need to choose when to assume that the user meant
something that they didn't write very carefully.

But look at this:

  git checkout origin/master

  git checkout -t origin/master

The option is called "--track", yet in this case what it actually means
in the default situation where you have autosetupmerge (or whatever it's
really called) set to true, is that it modifies the command to imply "-b
master".  So, in this situation, that is clearly what was meant.

Perhaps you can give an example of why this particular piece of DWIM
might not be WYM?

Sam.