Merge branch 'ab/checkout-default-remote'

"git checkout" and "git worktree add" learned to honor
checkout.defaultRemote when auto-vivifying a local branch out of a
remote tracking branch in a repository with multiple remotes that
have tracking branches that share the same names.

* ab/checkout-default-remote:
  checkout & worktree: introduce checkout.defaultRemote
  checkout: add advice for ambiguous "checkout <branch>"
  builtin/checkout.c: use "ret" variable for return
  checkout: pass the "num_matches" up to callers
  checkout.c: change "unique" member to "num_matches"
  checkout.c: introduce an *_INIT macro
  checkout.h: wrap the arguments to unique_tracking_name()
  checkout tests: index should be clean after dwim checkout

3 files changed, 44 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 3fdc6f0327..44df580a81 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -344,6 +344,16 @@ advice.*::
 		Advice shown when you used linkgit:git-checkout[1] to
 		move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to create
 		a local branch after the fact.
+	checkoutAmbiguousRemoteBranchName::
+		Advice shown when the argument to
+		linkgit:git-checkout[1] ambiguously resolves to a
+		remote tracking branch on more than one remote in
+		situations where an unambiguous argument would have
+		otherwise caused a remote-tracking branch to be
+		checked out. See the `checkout.defaultRemote`
+		configuration variable for how to set a given remote
+		to used by default in some situations where this
+		advice would be printed.
 	amWorkDir::
 		Advice that shows the location of the patch file when
 		linkgit:git-am[1] fails to apply it.
@@ -1104,6 +1114,22 @@ browser.<tool>.path::
 	browse HTML help (see `-w` option in linkgit:git-help[1]) or a
 	working repository in gitweb (see linkgit:git-instaweb[1]).
 
+checkout.defaultRemote::
+	When you run 'git checkout <something>' and only have one
+	remote, it may implicitly fall back on checking out and
+	tracking e.g. 'origin/<something>'. This stops working as soon
+	as you have more than one remote with a '<something>'
+	reference. This setting allows for setting the name of a
+	preferred remote that should always win when it comes to
+	disambiguation. The typical use-case is to set this to
+	`origin`.
++
+Currently this is used by linkgit:git-checkout[1] when 'git checkout
+<something>' will checkout the '<something>' branch on another remote,
+and by linkgit:git-worktree[1] when 'git worktree add' refers to a
+remote branch. This setting might be used for other checkout-like
+commands or functionality in the future.
+
 clean.requireForce::
 	A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f,
 	-i or -n.   Defaults to true.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index ca5fc9c798..9db02928c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -38,6 +38,15 @@ equivalent to
 $ git checkout -b <branch> --track <remote>/<branch>
 ------------
 +
+If the branch exists in multiple remotes and one of them is named by
+the `checkout.defaultRemote` configuration variable, we'll use that
+one for the purposes of disambiguation, even if the `<branch>` isn't
+unique across all remotes. Set it to
+e.g. `checkout.defaultRemote=origin` to always checkout remote
+branches from there if `<branch>` is ambiguous but exists on the
+'origin' remote. See also `checkout.defaultRemote` in
+linkgit:git-config[1].
++
 You could omit <branch>, in which case the command degenerates to
 "check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with
 rather expensive side-effects to show only the tracking information,
diff --git a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
index afc6576a14..9c26be40f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
@@ -60,6 +60,15 @@ with a matching name, treat as equivalent to:
 $ git worktree add --track -b <branch> <path> <remote>/<branch>
 ------------
 +
+If the branch exists in multiple remotes and one of them is named by
+the `checkout.defaultRemote` configuration variable, we'll use that
+one for the purposes of disambiguation, even if the `<branch>` isn't
+unique across all remotes. Set it to
+e.g. `checkout.defaultRemote=origin` to always checkout remote
+branches from there if `<branch>` is ambiguous but exists on the
+'origin' remote. See also `checkout.defaultRemote` in
+linkgit:git-config[1].
++
 If `<commit-ish>` is omitted and neither `-b` nor `-B` nor `--detach` used,
 then, as a convenience, the new worktree is associated with a branch
 (call it `<branch>`) named after `$(basename <path>)`.  If `<branch>`