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From: Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@aon.at>
Subject: DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 13:09:30 +0200
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Hi,

Peter and I just stumbled on the following interpretations of the
checkout command.

 git checkout origin/frotz      -> detaches HEAD
 git checkout -t origin/frotz   -> git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz
 git checkout frotz             -> git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz
 git checkout -t frotz          -> fatal: Missing branch name

I was surprised by the third one, which I was expecting to fail.
Apparently it's a DWIM feature introduced in commit 70c9ac2f. I
doubt that is what the user was trying to do if they ran that
command. If anything, this behavior will serve to confuse them.

I think git checkout -t <remote>/<branch> is short enough for
creating a new tracking branch. For something even shorter, we can
create an alias. But I'd prefer to keep the already complex
checkout command a little simpler.

Regards,
Clemens