Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] checkout: learn to respect checkout.guess

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 09:47:41 -0700

Denton Liu <[email-masked]> writes:

> diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
> index afa5c11fd3..28f656d04e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
> @@ -193,6 +193,9 @@ branches from there if `<branch>` is ambiguous but exists on the
>  linkgit:git-config[1].
>  +
>  Use `--no-guess` to disable this.
> ++
> +The default behavior can be set via the `checkout.guess` configuration
> +variable.
>  
>  -l::
>  	Create the new branch's reflog; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-switch.txt b/Documentation/git-switch.txt
> index 3759c3a265..5c438cd505 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-switch.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-switch.txt
> @@ -103,6 +103,9 @@ ambiguous but exists on the 'origin' remote. See also
>  `checkout.defaultRemote` in linkgit:git-config[1].
>  +
>  `--guess` is the default behavior. Use `--no-guess` to disable it.
> ++
> +The default behavior can be set via the `checkout.guess` configuration
> +variable.

Contrasting the above two, one cannot help but notice that it is
totally unclear how "git checkout" that is not explicitly told by
command line or configuration behaves.  Perhaps "`--guess` is the
default behaviour." needs to be transplated from the description
for "git switch" to clarify?

This is not a new issue, but is made stand out even more prominently
due to the addition.

Thanks.