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

From: Jinwook Jeong <vustthat@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 16, 2023, 02:50 UTC
Message-ID: <CAA3Q-aazO1ko4uBSUs5W_rjn8AP_=fc2jAYrMsaeMtpnm54ExA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20230116001144.dt76xk6hkwn45klz@Carlos-MacBook-Pro-2.local>

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 9:11 AM Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 06:45:34PM +0900, Jinwook Jeong wrote:
> > 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
>
> Was your intention to get this worktree's content back to what is in
> master's HEAD?, then the command should had been

Sorry for confusion. These steps didn't reflect my real use case but rather are for demonstration.

I encountered this issue by chance, not knowing how that command would work under multiple worktrees.