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

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Alex Riesen [off-list ref] wrote:

+If no '-b' option was given, the name of the new branch will be
+derived from the remote branch, by attempting to guess the name of the
+branch on remote system and use it. The algorithm will remove a
+prefixed refs/ and the part after refs/ up to a slash (that part
+usually being a branch namespace, which makes it confusing to use for
+branch names). If the part after refs/ was remotes/, than a part past

s/than/then/

j.