The "check out this branch" command in command help under "Show commands" on issue merge requests includes a needless command option that makes it needlessly long and harder to read. It currently takes this form:
git checkout -b '<branch>' --track <label>/'<branch>'
The -b option is actually superfluous--the command will behave identically without it:
git checkout --track <label>/'<branch>'
This is explicit in the man page for the command:
As a convenience, --track without -b implies branch creation
and:
If no -b option is given, the name of the new branch will be derived from the remote-tracking branch, by looking at the local part of the refspec configured for the corresponding remote, and then stripping the initial part up to the "*".
Given a clone of drupal...
Currently:
$ git checkout -b '3422977-rename-locale-batch' --track drupal-3422977/'3422977-rename-locale-batch'
branch '3422977-rename-locale-batch' set up to track 'drupal-3422977/3422977-rename-locale-batch'.
Switched to a new branch '3422977-rename-locale-batch'
$ git branch -vv | grep 3422977-rename-locale-batch
* 3422977-rename-locale-batch e5ef631e31 [drupal-3422977/3422977-rename-locale-batch] Add setup method in LocaleBulkTest.php.
Without the superfluous option:
$ git checkout --track drupal-3422977/'3422977-rename-locale-batch'
branch '3422977-rename-locale-batch' set up to track 'drupal-3422977/3422977-rename-locale-batch'.
Switched to a new branch '3422977-rename-locale-batch'
$ git branch -vv | grep 3422977-rename-locale-batch
* 3422977-rename-locale-batch e5ef631e31 [drupal-3422977/3422977-rename-locale-batch] Add setup method in LocaleBulkTest.php.
There is no difference between the output or results.
I figure we may as well simplify the command to make it more readable and instructive.
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Yes, making the command shorter is nice. Since the checkout command also reports which branch it switches to, no information is lost.