[PATCH v2 2/2] checkout: fix regression in checkout -b on intitial checkout

From

Ben Peart <peartben@gmail.com>

Date

Jan 21, 2019, 19:50 UTC

Message-ID

<20190121195008.8700-3-peartben@gmail.com>

In-Reply-To

<20190121195008.8700-1-peartben@gmail.com>

From: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <benpeart@microsoft.com>
---
 builtin/checkout.c         | 7 +++++++
 t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index 6fadf412e8..9c6e94319e 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -592,6 +592,13 @@ static int skip_merge_working_tree(const struct checkout_opts *opts,
 	 * Remaining variables are not checkout options but used to track state
 	 */
 
+	 /*
+	  * Do the merge if this is the initial checkout
+	  *
+	  */
+	if (!file_exists(get_index_file()))
+		return 0;
+
 	return 1;
 }
 
diff --git a/t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh b/t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh
index 6da2d4e68f..c5014ad9a6 100755
--- a/t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh
+++ b/t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ test_expect_success 'checkout -B to the current branch works' '
 	test_dirty_mergeable
 '
 
-test_expect_failure 'checkout -b after clone --no-checkout does a checkout of HEAD' '
+test_expect_success 'checkout -b after clone --no-checkout does a checkout of HEAD' '
 	git init src &&
 	test_commit -C src a &&
 	rev="$(git -C src rev-parse HEAD)" &&

-- 
2.19.1.gvfs.1.16.g9d1374d