From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:42:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Corruption of branch?
Message-ID: <xmqqr3ioiwyq.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1450125640.16044.4.camel@kaarsemaker.net>

Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net> writes:

> That leaves only one option: you also have a file or directory named
> 'frus' in the root of your repository. In this case 'git checkout frus'
> does the same as 'git checkout -- frus' instead of DWIM'ing 'git
> checkout frus' to 'git checkout -b frus origin/frus'

;-)  That would be my guess.