"git checkout" can be executed without any arguments. What it does is not exactly great: it switches from HEAD to HEAD and showing worktree modification as a side effect. Make switch-branch reject this case. You have to either - really switch a branch - (explicitly) detach from the current branch - create a new branch Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/checkout.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c index 880030e929..c7ae068d2c 100644 --- a/builtin/checkout.c +++ b/builtin/checkout.c @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ struct checkout_opts { int show_progress; int dwim_new_local_branch; int accept_pathspec; + int switch_branch_doing_nothing_not_ok; /* * If new checkout options are added, skip_merge_working_tree @@ -1233,6 +1234,13 @@ static int checkout_branch(struct checkout_opts *opts, die(_("Cannot switch branch to a non-commit '%s'"), new_branch_info->name); + if (opts->switch_branch_doing_nothing_not_ok && + !new_branch_info->name && + !opts->new_branch && + !opts->new_branch_force && + !opts->force_detach) + die(_("nothing to do")); + if (new_branch_info->path && !opts->force_detach && !opts->new_branch && !opts->ignore_other_worktrees) { int flag; @@ -1475,6 +1483,7 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) memset(&opts, 0, sizeof(opts)); opts.dwim_new_local_branch = 1; + opts.switch_branch_doing_nothing_not_ok = 0; opts.accept_pathspec = 1; options = parse_options_dup(checkout_options); @@ -1503,6 +1512,7 @@ int cmd_switch_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) memset(&opts, 0, sizeof(opts)); opts.dwim_new_local_branch = 1; opts.accept_pathspec = 0; + opts.switch_branch_doing_nothing_not_ok = 1; options = parse_options_dup(switch_options); options = add_common_options(&opts, options); -- 2.20.0.rc1.380.g3eb999425c.dirty