On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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) Rhaaa, that actually wouldn't work as the git checkout command would fail if there are changes in the index & working tree. What I want here is actually for git checkout -f -b jch to be equivalent to: git branch -D jch (ignore error if jch branch does not exist) git checkout -b jch > 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. At least the rationale still holds :) -- 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