Right now, the -f/--force in git-checkout doesn't carry over to -b
operations - ie. you can't do git checkout -b branch on an existing
branch. This patch series changes this, so that one can do
git checkout -f -b branch ref
which is equivalent to
git branch -f branch ref && git checkout branch
Contents:
[PATCH 1/3] add tests for checkout -b
[PATCH 2/3] t2018-checkout-branch.sh: show that checkout -f -b doesn't DWIM
[PATCH 3/3] builtin/checkout: DWIM with -f -b
Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 3 +
builtin/checkout.c | 4 +-
t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh | 86 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
create mode 100755 t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh