From 5a03e7f25334a6bf1dbbfdb9830d41de5b8f0d7f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shawn Pearce Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:24:38 -0400 Subject: Allow git-checkout when on a non-existant branch. I've seen some users get into situtations where their HEAD symbolic-ref is pointing at a non-existant ref. (Sometimes this happens during clone when the remote repository lacks a 'master' branch.) If this happens the user is unable to use git-checkout to switch branches as there is no prior commit to merge from. So instead of giving the user low-level errors about how HEAD can't be resolved and how not a single revision was given change the type of checkout to be a force and go through with the user's request anyway. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- t/t7201-co.sh | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 't/t7201-co.sh') diff --git a/t/t7201-co.sh b/t/t7201-co.sh index b64e8b7d7..085d4a096 100755 --- a/t/t7201-co.sh +++ b/t/t7201-co.sh @@ -31,6 +31,15 @@ test_expect_success setup ' git checkout master ' +test_expect_success "checkout from non-existing branch" ' + + git checkout -b delete-me master && + rm .git/refs/heads/delete-me && + test refs/heads/delete-me = "$(git symbolic-ref HEAD)" && + git checkout master && + test refs/heads/master = "$(git symbolic-ref HEAD)" +' + test_expect_success "checkout with dirty tree without -m" ' fill 0 1 2 3 4 5 >one && -- cgit v1.2.1