Re: Bug: "git checkout -b" should be allowed in empty repo

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

But the last one has no chance of working if you think about it, because
"git branch foo $start" is a way to start a branch at $start and you need
to have something to point at with refs/heads/foo.

... which brings us back to your earlier point ...

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I like your patch better than trying to pass around "0{40}", but:

which is why my conclusion was that "checkout -b" is shifting the
confusion around to different parts.

So we are breaking the equivalence between these three only when HEAD
points at an unborn branch.