Re: Re* [BUG] "git checkout -b" erronously thinks a branch already exists

Hello Junio, and thanks for your quick answer.

On Monday 06 June 2011, Junio C wrote:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

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I think the right fix is to make sure that "refs/heads/<name>" does not
exist by checking exactly that.

Perhaps something like this.  I am not sure if we want to use the "yield
non zero to signal not an error but an early return" trick like I did in
this patch, though.

Let's do this instead. I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that
inefficient "loop refs to see if there is that one" patch.

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I can confirm this change fixes the problem for me.

Thanks,
  Stefano