Porcelains may want to make sure their calls to "git checkout" will reliably fail regardless of the presense of random remote tracking branches by the new DWIMmery introduced. Luckily all existing in-tree callers have extra checks to make sure they feed local branch name when they want to switch, or they explicitly ask to detach HEAD at the given commit, so there is no need to add this option for them. As this is strictly script-only option, do not even bother to document it, and do bother to hide it from "git checkout -h". Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> As Junio asked for helping hands, let's try to be helpful and constructive. >> >> Maybe "don't second-guess" explains it better? > > Perhaps --no-guess, as --no-second-guess is rather hard to read even in scripts. builtin-checkout.c | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-checkout.c b/builtin-checkout.c index fb7e68a..da04eed 100644 --- a/builtin-checkout.c +++ b/builtin-checkout.c @@ -616,6 +616,7 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) struct tree *source_tree = NULL; char *conflict_style = NULL; int patch_mode = 0; + int dwim_new_local_branch = 1; struct option options[] = { OPT__QUIET(&opts.quiet), OPT_STRING('b', NULL, &opts.new_branch, "new branch", "branch"), @@ -631,6 +632,9 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) OPT_STRING(0, "conflict", &conflict_style, "style", "conflict style (merge or diff3)"), OPT_BOOLEAN('p', "patch", &patch_mode, "select hunks interactively"), + { OPTION_BOOLEAN, 0, "guess", &dwim_new_local_branch, NULL, + "second guess 'git checkout no-such-branch'", + PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_HIDDEN }, OPT_END(), }; int has_dash_dash; @@ -715,6 +719,7 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) if (has_dash_dash) /* case (1) */ die("invalid reference: %s", arg); if (!patch_mode && + dwim_new_local_branch && opts.track == BRANCH_TRACK_UNSPECIFIED && !opts.new_branch && !check_filename(NULL, arg) && -- 1.6.5.1.107.gba912 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html