Re: [PATCH 3/3] builtin/checkout: DWIM with -f -b

From: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Date: Jun 21, 2010, 02:58 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTildfbJvt15cObc52LvOQRvasL4WYsJq3126bBGd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100620211605.GA2559@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> I'm certainly sympathetic, but as I understand it, with this new patch
> you are doing the equivalent of:
>
>  git branch -f jch master
>  git checkout -f jch
>
> which is different than what you wrote above.  For your workflow, I
> doubt it matters, but it is potentially destructive.

I am frequently trying to do this as well, so I would love the checkout -f -b option.

However, I think that the desired behavior for checkout -f -b is that it should be equivalent to: git branch -f jch master git checkout jch (without the -f here)

rationale: git checkout -b normally preserves the index & the working tree; adding the -f flag to a command that would otherwise succeed should not change its behavior.

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.