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List:       git
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] checkout --track: make up a sensible branch name if '-b'
From:       Junio C Hamano <gitster () pobox ! com>
Date:       2008-08-09 18:44:12
Message-ID: 7vtzdu6nb7.fsf () gitster ! siamese ! dyndns ! org
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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.

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