On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 03:29:48PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 13:09, Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@xxxxxx> wrote: > > I think git checkout -t <remote>/<branch> is short enough for > > creating a new tracking branch. For something even shorter, we can > > create an alias. But I'd prefer to keep the already complex > > checkout command a little simpler. > > You're a little late to the party ;). Did you read the original thread > discussing this? Well, I just noticed this by accident, it is not documented anywhere, and you cannot expected me to know everything that is going on on the list. Should I not offer my opinion because of that? I could not make much sense of the thread that came with the patch. The discussion first seems to conclude that it is a bad idea, only to implement it anyway. Well, I also think it is a bad idea, and I am not surprised to find users confused by it. -- 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