From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 08:59:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Undocumented change in `git branch -M` behavior
Message-ID: <CACsJy8C=D_MHRJHdbqjZHBvr-Xs_VXxzRU_KenpWrvX1Nb_iyw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170823201334.bz42s6t5ti4jdaqm@pitfall>

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 3:13 AM, Nish Aravamudan
<nish.aravamudan@canonical.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Hopefully, I've got this right -- I noticed a change in behavior in git
> with Ubuntu 17.10, which recently got 2.14.1. Specifically, that when in
> an orphaned branch, -M ends up moving HEAD to the new branch name,
> clobbering the working tree.

Thanks for the report. I think I see what's going on. I need some more
time to come up with a patch but yes this is definitely a bug (and
caused by my commit)
-- 
Duy