Right now, the -f/--force in git-checkout doesn't carry over to -b operations - ie. you can't do git checkout -b branch on an existing branch. This patch allows you to do this with the -B option, so that one can do git checkout -B branch ref which is equivalent to git branch -f branch ref && git checkout branch Changes from v1: - reworked option handling - don't replace <new_branch> with <branch> in documentation Contents: [PATCH v2 1/3] add tests for checkout -b [PATCH v2 2/3] builtin/checkout: reword hint for -b [PATCH v2 3/3] builtin/checkout: learn -B Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 21 +++++- builtin/checkout.c | 32 ++++++-- t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh | 166 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 211 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) create mode 100755 t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh -- 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