From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 07:09:52 GMT
Subject: Re: Use of the -f flag on checkout
Message-ID: <pan.2005.09.29.07.09.51.516956@smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To: <200509290754.30017.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>

Hi, Alan Chandler wrote:

> What is the risk in not using it (ie what are the cases when you should
> use it)?

The risk of using it is that you kill your local changes, even if you want
to keep them. They're *gone*.

The risk of not using it is that you check local changes into a branch
where they don't belong.

=> IMHO, "checkout -f" should be avoided in scripts. If you want to be
safe, check that you don't have local changes or additional files *before*
doing the work.

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