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Re: Bug^Feature? fetch protects only current working tree branch

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AHAndreas Heiduk <andreas.heiduk@mathema.de>
Date
Jul 24, 2017, 21:51 UTC
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Am 24.07.2017 um 00:13 schrieb Junio C Hamano:
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> Andreas Heiduk <andreas.heiduk@mathema.de> writes:
> 
>> A `git fetch . origin/master:master` protects the currently checked out 
>> branch (HEAD) unless the `-u/--update-head-ok` is supplied. This avoids a
>> mismatch between the index and HEAD. BUT branches which are HEADs in other
>> working trees do not get that care - their state is silently screwed up.
>>
>> Is this intended behaviour or and just an oversight while implementing
>> `git worktree`?
> 
> The latter.  
Ok, so I can adjust some of my helper scripts to catch and forbid this case.
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> [...]"git worktree" is an interesting feature and has
> potential to become useful in wider variety of workflows than it
> currently is, but end users should consider it still experimental as
> it still is with many such small rough edges like this one.
> 
> Patches to help improving the feature is of course very welcome.

Since the core of the check is in C, I'll pass on this one. I could supply a patch adding this to the "BUGS" section of git-worktree(1) though :-)

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