Re: [PATCH] Extend "checkout --track" DWIM to support more cases

Johannes Schindelin, Wed, Aug 20, 2008 21:52:23 +0200:

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Alex Riesen wrote:

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-		slash = strchr(argv[0], '/');
-		if (slash && !prefixcmp(argv[0], "refs/"))
-			slash = strchr(slash + 1, '/');
-		if (slash && !prefixcmp(argv[0], "remotes/"))
-			slash = strchr(slash + 1, '/');

Why is this not enough?  It strips refs/ if there is one, and remotes/ if 
there is one (possibly after stripping refs/).  No?

No. It strips refs/ OR remotes/ (because of prefixcmp with argv[0]).
And I still wanted refs/<namespace>/something...