On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 12:56:22PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > I think: > > > > git checkout --guess origin > > > > would make sense to dereference origin/HEAD to "foo", as if we had said > > "git checkout foo". That's the explicit part that seems safe. My > > question is whether: > > > > git checkout origin > > > > should likewise do so. > > I see. I think "--guess" is by default true, so unless you have > checkout.guess=false configured, my answer to the above question is > yes. Yes, I agree with the current definition of "--guess", the two would be the same. I'm just concerned that people will be unhappy with changing the behavior of the latter, so everything else (the "tri-state --guess" thing) is an attempt to band-aid over that. If we decide it's not a concern worth addressing, then I agree the two should behave the same. I'm just not convinced it won't annoy people who are used to how "git checkout" works now with non-local branches. -Peff
