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[85.24.230.197]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 38308e7fff4ca-38ecb73de2esm55720651fa.36.2026.04.25.10.41.58 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 bits=256/256); Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:41:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Harald Nordgren To: kristofferhaugsbakk@fastmail.com Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitgitgadget@gmail.com, haraldnordgren@gmail.com Subject: Comments on Phillip's review Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:41:57 +0200 Message-ID: <20260425174157.44868-1-haraldnordgren@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.54.0-rc2 In-Reply-To: <89f923bf-e5fc-4557-a2f0-d240db07eaf9@app.fastmail.com> References: <89f923bf-e5fc-4557-a2f0-d240db07eaf9@app.fastmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Add a --fetch option to git checkout and git switch, plus a > > checkout.autoFetch config to enable it by default. When set and the > > Why is the config not `checkout.config`? So it’s named the same as the > option (modulo snake case/camel case which is not relevant here). Will rename the config to 'checkout.fetch'. > The motivation for why this is being proposed maybe might as well go in > the commit message. Maybe that’s just me. > > The commit message just says that “this thing is added”. Not why. I will update it. > I guess a later version will have the changes to the documentation. I forgot that, will add it! > s/remote-tracking ref/remote-tracking branch/ ? > > git(1) doesn’t have a namespace for tracking refs in general. 👍 Harald