Junio C Hamano wrote:
> When you do not have local "frotz" branch, and do have cloned/fetched from
the origin that has "frotz" branch, I am actually Ok with this
$ git checkout frotz [--]
to do an equivalent of:
$ git checkout -t -b frotz origin/frotz
I do not have problem with this _particular_ DWIMmery. It will not break
people's expectations, other than "asking to check out non-existing ref
should fail". That expectation might be logical, but I do not think it is
useful.
FWIW most of the people we train (and we do spend time explaining the
distinction between origin/foo and foo) still find it annoying to have
to create local branches that track branches from the cloned repo. I
think this probably has something to do with the fact that master is
automatically checked out when you clone--people expect other upstream
branches to just 'exist' locally in a similar fashion.
I think the above suggestion is simple enough and would provide the most
bang-for-your-buck in terms of usability.
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