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bugreport: "git checkout -B" allows checking out one branch across multiple worktrees

From
JJJinwook Jeong <vustthat@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 14, 2023, 09:45 UTC
Message-ID
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What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
1. `cd` into any git repo that has at least one commit.
2. Identify the current branch, say main
3. $ git branch foo # a new branch
4. $ git worktree add ../new_worktree foo
5. $ cd ../new_worktree
6. $ git checkout -B master HEAD
What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)

git prints out "Fatal: 'main' is already checked out at ..." (or similar message that informs me that I'm not allowed to doubly checkout one branch)

What happened instead? (Actual behavior)

The new_worktree successfully changes its current branch to master, which is already held by another worktree.

Anything else you want to add:
https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-checkout#Documentation/git-checkout.txt-emgitcheckoutem-b-Bltnew-branchgtltstart-pointgt

According to the documentation, "git checkout -B BRANCH START" is the transactionally equivalent of:

  git branch -f BRANCH START
  git checkout BRANCH

When I ran the first command in place of the step 6 of the above reproducing procedure, git refused to carry on; I suppose that this is the intended behavior for "git checkout -B".

[System Info] git version: git version 2.39.0 cpu: arm64 no commit associated with this build sizeof-long: 8 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: /bin/sh feature: fsmonitor--daemon uname: Darwin 21.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.6.0: Sun Nov 6 23:31:13 PST 2022; root:xnu-8020.240.14~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 arm64 compiler info: clang: 14.0.0 (clang-1400.0.29.202) libc info: no libc information available $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /opt/homebrew/bin/bash

[Enabled Hooks] not run from a git repository - no hooks to show

Next: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
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  1. Jinwook JeongJan 14, 2023
  2. Carlo Marcelo Arenas BelónJan 16, 2023
  3. Eric SunshineJan 16, 2023
  4. Jinwook JeongJan 16, 2023

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