I think it's unnecessary to warn that the checkout has been forced due to an unborn current branch if -f has been explicitly passed. For one project, I am using git-new-workdir to create workdirs from a bare repository whose HEAD is set to an unborn branch, and this warning started to irritate me. Signed-off-by: Matt McCutchen <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- builtin-checkout.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-checkout.c b/builtin-checkout.c index 464fd25..7f3bd7b 100644 --- a/builtin-checkout.c +++ b/builtin-checkout.c @@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ static int switch_branches(struct checkout_opts *opts, struct branch_info *new) if (!opts->quiet && !old.path && old.commit && new->commit != old.commit) describe_detached_head("Previous HEAD position was", old.commit); - if (!old.commit) { + if (!old.commit && !opts->force) { if (!opts->quiet) { fprintf(stderr, "warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born.\n"); fprintf(stderr, "warning: Forcing checkout of %s.\n", new->name); -- 1.6.0.2.593.g91df -- 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