Re: [PATCH] checkout --track: make up a sensible branch name if '-b' was omitted

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> What does the user most likely want with this command?
>>
>> 	$ git checkout --track origin/next
>>
>> Exactly.  A branch called 'next', that tracks origin's branch 'next'.
>
> I like this.
>
> An explicit --track request from the command line (as opposed to happening
> to have "branch.autosetupmerge" configuration) is a very good cue that
> what the user wants to do is not to take a peek on a detached HEAD but a
> more permanent playpen created.

A couple more thoughts.

(1) You may not necessarily are used to --track, but may still want this
    done.  It might not be a bad idea to associate this "local dwimming"
    to creation of a new branch.  In other words, all of these:

    $ git checkout -b origin/next
    $ git checkout -b --track origin/next
    $ git checkout --track origin/next

    may merit the same dwimming.

(2) If you work with somebody else, you might not want to have the name
    mapping to be "s|^[^/]*/||" (i.e. drop "origin/"):

    $ git remote add -f jeff $url_to_his_repository
    $ git checkout -b [--track] jeff-next jeff/next
    $ git checkout -b [--track] origin-next origin/next