From: Kirill Likhodedov <kirill.likhodedov@jetbrains.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 14:54:01 GMT
Subject: git worktree fails to recreate existing branch even with -B
Message-ID: <344AE670-BF9A-4779-AFB0-50B870E1D488@jetbrains.com>

Git doesn’t allow me to execute 
    git worktree add -B <branch> <path> <start-point>
where <branch> already exists in the repository.

The command prints the following:
    Preparing <path> (identifier <branch>)
    fatal: Refusing to point HEAD outside of refs/

I’m trying to create a worktree on an existing branch <branch>, which should point to <start-point>. This obviously should fail with “-b”, but I use “-B” and expect it to be reset to <start-point> as mentioned in the docs:

    By default, -b refuses to create a new branch if it already exists.  
    -B overrides this safeguard, resetting <new-branch> to <branch>.

Do I miss something or there is a bug?

Steps to reproduce:

git init wt
cd wt
echo 'asd' > a.txt ; git add a.txt ; git commit -m initial
git branch br1
git worktree add -B br1 ~/temp/br1 master

Error message:
Preparing /Users/loki/temp/br1 (identifier br1)
fatal: Refusing to point HEAD outside of refs/

Thanks a lot!
-- Kirill