From: Michel Lespinasse Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:58:53 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] builtin/checkout: DWIM with -f -b Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100620211605.GA2559@sigill.intra.peff.net> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Jeff King wrote: > 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.