On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm certainly sympathetic, but as I understand it, with this new patch > you are doing the equivalent of: > > git branch -f jch master > git checkout -f jch > > which is different than what you wrote above. For your workflow, I > doubt it matters, but it is potentially destructive. I am frequently trying to do this as well, so I would love the checkout -f -b option. However, I think that the desired behavior for checkout -f -b is that it should be equivalent to: git branch -f jch master git checkout jch (without the -f here) rationale: git checkout -b normally preserves the index & the working tree; adding the -f flag to a command that would otherwise succeed should not change its behavior. -- Michel "Walken" Lespinasse A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies. -- 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