On 23/11/2023 05:58, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:I guess we could change the behaviour so that git checkout -B <branch> [<start-point>] fails when <branch> is an existing branch that is in use in another worktree, and allow "-f" to be used to override the safety, i.e., git checkout -f -B <branch> [<start-point>] would allow the <branch> to be repointed to <start-point> (or HEAD) even when it is used elsewhere.It turns out that for some reason "-f" is not how we decided to override this one---there is "--ignore-other-worktrees" option.
Presumably that's because -f means throwing away any local changes that are in the way of checking out the new HEAD, which you wouldn't necessarily want when trying to replace an existing branch.
Andy
