On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 09:59:08AM -0700, Jacob Helwig wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 09:55, Clemens Buchacher <drizzd@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > 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. I see. But would it be so terrible to have to type "git checkout -t origin/branch" instead? Also, isn't this more like "foretell what I really want" rather than "do what it means"? Who would guess that "git checkout $branch" means "create $branch tracking <random-remote>/$branch"? And this is exactly _why_ it can be marginally useful if the foretelling is correct, but all the more confusing if it's not. -- 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