# [PATCH] git-checkout: do not allow -f and -m at the same time.

1 messages from 2006-11-15 to 2006-11-15. Participants: Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/43704

## Junio C Hamano, 2006-11-15 19:06

Subject: [PATCH] git-checkout: do not allow -f and -m at the same time.
Message-ID: <7vfyckmsw1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vfyckmsw1.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net

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Instead of silently ignoring one over the other, complain on
this incompatible combination.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---
 * Back to fixing usability issues one at a time instead of
   throwing everything away with bathwater.

 git-checkout.sh |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh
index 119bca1..eb28b29 100755
--- a/git-checkout.sh
+++ b/git-checkout.sh
@@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ while [ "$#" != "0" ]; do
     esac
 done
 
+case "$force$merge" in
+11)
+	die "git checkout: -f and -m are incompatible"
+esac
+
 # The behaviour of the command with and without explicit path
 # parameters is quite different.
 #
-- 
1.4.4


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