On 1/9/06, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

2. Fix "git checkout <branch>" so that it does a reasonable thing
   even when a dirty path is different in current HEAD and
   destination branch.  Then I could:

        $ git checkout symref ;# this would not work in the current git
            # it would die like this:
            # $ git checkout symref
            # fatal: Entry 'gitweb.cgi' not uptodate. Cannot merge.

That is actually very interesting. I already wished sometimes to be
able to switch branches with a dirty working directory (and usually
ended up with git diff+checkout+apply).
Even if it results in a merge and conflict markers in files it looks
like a very practical idea!

        $ git diff ;# just to make sure inevitable automated merge
                    # did the right thing
        $ git commit -a -m "Fix symref fix"
            # I could collapse them into one instead, like this:
            # $ git reset --soft HEAD^
            # $ git commit -a -C ORIG_HEAD

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