Re: git checkout creates strange '(null)'-branch
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:53:46
Erik Faye-Lund [off-list ref] writes:
Before this commit, the checkout would error out with "fatal: You are on a branch yet to be born". Perhaps abe1998 was too optimistic about allowing this, and something like this would be in order?
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---8<---diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c index 23fc56d..35924d4 100644 --- a/builtin/checkout.c +++ b/builtin/checkout.c@@ -1091,7 +1091,7 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv,const char *prefix) if (opts.writeout_stage) die(_("--ours/--theirs is incompatible with switching branches.")); - if (!new.commit) { + if (!new.commit && opts.new_branch) { unsigned char rev[20]; int flag; ---8<---
The patch looks like it will avoid flipping the HEAD, and in that case we would go to switch_branches() codepath and will resurrect the old error message, so it seems correct. Thanks for digging.