Phil Hord <phil.hord@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Maybe you can suggest the advice verbiage which you think would have > helped this user. Requiring starting point and failing without --force will never happen, but it could be a possible approach to issue an additional advice message under reasonably narrow conditions, namely: - The starting point was not given explicitly; - It would have DWIMed to "git checkout -t -b it origin/it" when creating the branch (I think you need to check configurations like branch.autosetupmerge and existence of the tracking branch remotes/origin/it); and - advice.branchNotTrackingCorrespondingRemote is not set to false. -- 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