From: Erick Mattos Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:30:27 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] teach git-checkout -B WAS builtin/checkout: DWIM with -f -b Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Hi, 2010/6/21 Tay Ray Chuan : > On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Tay Ray Chuan wrote: >> Right now, the -f/--force in git-checkout doesn't carry over to -b >> operations - ie. you can't do git checkout -b branch on an existing >> branch. >> >> This patch allows you to do this with the -B option, so that one can do >> >>  git checkout -B branch ref >> >> which is equivalent to >> >>  git branch -f branch ref && git checkout branch If I need to do that, I would do: git checkout branch && git reset --hard ref. Another way to do it is: git branch -D branch && git checkout -b branch ref. So, we have enough porcelain commands to do it. I would recommend a second thought to see if your refinement is really necessary. I would agree so if those procedures are needed very often. > Erick, does this series change how --orphan should be used? If you be careful It won't make any change. I will comment that on the series if needed. Thanks very much for asking. Kind regards