Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 3 authors, 2023-01-16

Re: bugreport: "git checkout -B" allows checking out one branch across multiple worktrees

From: Jinwook Jeong <hidden>
Date: 2023-01-16 02:50:38

On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 9:11 AM Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
[off-list ref] wrote:
On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 06:45:34PM +0900, Jinwook Jeong wrote:
quoted
What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)

1. `cd` into any git repo that has at least one commit.
2. Identify the current branch, say main
3. $ git branch foo # a new branch
4. $ git worktree add ../new_worktree foo
5. $ cd ../new_worktree
6. $ git checkout -B master HEAD
Was your intention to get this worktree's content back to what is in
master's HEAD?, then the command should had been
Sorry for confusion. These steps didn't reflect my real use case but
rather are for demonstration.

I encountered this issue by chance, not knowing how that command would
work under multiple worktrees.
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