Nanako Shiraishi [off-list ref] writes:
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In the subject you used 'git checkout -b frotz origin/frotz'. Did you
forget to say '-t'?
Hm, the DWIMmery only triggers when opts.track is
BRANCH_TRACK_UNSPECIFIED, i.e. -t was not used. And it doesn't change
opts.track when it DWIMs, so it respects branch.autosetupmerge, which
would be overriden by -t. So it seems correct that -t is not in there.
I see.
A user who always wants tracking can set the config option and use
the new "git checkout frotz" shortcut, but a user who usually
doesn't want tracking doesn't have the config option and when he
wants tracking only for this new branch he can explicitly say "git
checkout -t origin/frotz", right?
Correct.