From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:09:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] builtin/checkout: DWIM with -f -b
Message-ID: <7vfx0htfer.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100620211605.GA2559@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> ...  For your workflow, I
> doubt it matters, but it is potentially destructive.

Yes; I thought the implication of "-f" to be destructive would be a
justification enough, but I agree with you that conflating the two may be
a bad idea.  When a user says "git checkout -f -b jch" after seeing the
command without "-f" fail due to existing "jch", it is quite clear that
the user wants to clobber the history of existing "jch" branch (why else
would he giving "-f"), but it is not a justification to clobber local
changes he has in the index and the work tree.