Re: DWIM "git checkout frotz" to "git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz"

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On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 09:55, Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 12:18:05PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
>
>> Moreover, the burden for arguing against it is a little higher. It is no
>> longer "I think this is a bad idea" but "I think this is a bad idea, and
>> it is so bad that it is worth changing behavior that users may have
>> become accustomed to".
>
> I argue that people are more likely to be surprised and confused by
> this feature rather than being accustomed to it already. I am also
> waiting to hear from someone who actively uses this feature.
>

I am someone that "actively" uses this feature.  I will often have
repositories that I use on multiple machines, and will forget which
remote branches I have local tracking branches for, on which machines.
 I'll end up just doing `git checkout $random-branch`, thinking I'm on
one of the machines where I've already setup the local branch, and
find it quite handy that Git _does_ DWIM.
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