On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 06:31:21PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > I _think_ that this used to complain about untracked files being > overwritten: > > $ git init > $ git remote add -f origin <url> > $ git checkout -b blub origin/master > > It does not do that here (any longer, IIAC). Intended? I agree that it probably _should_ complain, but I don't think it ever did. I tried a handful of released versions as far back as v1.4.4, and all of them overwrite local files without complaining. My test was: -- >8 -- #!/bin/sh rm -rf parent child mkdir parent && ( cd parent && git init-db && echo content >file && git add file && git commit -m add ) && mkdir child && ( cd child && git init-db && git fetch ../parent master:origin && echo precious >file && ! git checkout -b foo origin ) -- >8 -- However, if I then do this: (cd parent && echo content >another && git add . && git commit -m more) (cd child && git fetch ../parent && git checkout -b new FETCH_HEAD) then it does complain. I'm guessing there is a different code path for the case that we have no index at all, and that it is not properly checking for overwrites. But now I have a small child waking up so I can't look into it further. :) -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html