From: Tay Ray Chuan Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:33:09 GMT Subject: [PATCH 0/3] DWIM with "git checkout -f -b" Message-ID: <1277051592-4552-1-git-send-email-rctay89@gmail.com> Right now, the -f/--force in git-checkout doesn't carry over to -b operations - ie. you can't do git checkout -b branch on an existing branch. This patch series changes this, so that one can do git checkout -f -b branch ref which is equivalent to git branch -f branch ref && git checkout branch Contents: [PATCH 1/3] add tests for checkout -b [PATCH 2/3] t2018-checkout-branch.sh: show that checkout -f -b doesn't DWIM [PATCH 3/3] builtin/checkout: DWIM with -f -b Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 3 + builtin/checkout.c | 4 +- t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100755 t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh