On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 12:26 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A "fix" to Ben's optimization for this particular case should be > fairly straight-forward. I think we have a special case in the > checkout codepath for an initial checkout and disable "carry forward > the fact that the user wanted all the paths removed", so it would be > the matter of adding yet another condition (is_cache_unborn(), which > is used to set topts.initial_checkout) to the large collection of > conditions in skip_merge_working_tree(). > I think it might be simpler than that even -- the optimization treats the following as equivalent when the current checked out revision is deadbeef (even if the index / worktree differ), when before they were not: - git checkout -b newbranch - git checkout deadbeef -b newbranch If a revision is specified on the commandline it should be checked out. Anthony