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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b
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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:00:53 +0200
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On 2009.10.18 19:34:48 +0900, Nanako Shiraishi wrote:
> Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
>=20
> > When 'frotz' is not a valid object name nor a tracked filename,
> > we used to complain and failed this command.  When there is only
> > one remote that has 'frotz' as one of its tracking branches, we can
> > DWIM it as a request to create a local branch 'frotz' forking from
> > the matching remote tracking branch.
>=20
> 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.

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