# Re: \[PATCH v6 26/32\] checkout: detach if the branch is already checked out elsewhere

- From: Max Kirillov \<hidden\>
- Date: 2016-06-15 23:01:54 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7636729
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2016/06/7636417/t.md

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On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 02:33:11PM +0700, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy wrote:
> +static int check_linked_checkout(struct branch_info *new,
> +				  const char *name, const char *path)
> +{
...
> +	if (!strncmp(start, new->path, end - start) &&
> +	    new->path[end - start] == '\0') {

This also detaches if the "holding checkout" is _this_
checkout, that is, when you are checking out the currently
checked our branch.

-- 
Max
```