Allow git-checkout when on a non-existant branch.

I've seen some users get into situtations where their HEAD
symbolic-ref is pointing at a non-existant ref.  (Sometimes this
happens during clone when the remote repository lacks a 'master'
branch.)  If this happens the user is unable to use git-checkout
to switch branches as there is no prior commit to merge from.

So instead of giving the user low-level errors about how HEAD
can't be resolved and how not a single revision was given change
the type of checkout to be a force and go through with the user's
request anyway.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
This commit is contained in:
Shawn Pearce 2006-09-25 01:24:38 -04:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 4a0641b7cf
commit 5a03e7f253
2 changed files with 17 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ USAGE='[-f] [-b <new_branch>] [-m] [<branch>] [<paths>...]'
SUBDIRECTORY_OK=Sometimes
. git-sh-setup
old=$(git-rev-parse HEAD)
old_name=HEAD
old=$(git-rev-parse --verify $old_name 2>/dev/null)
new=
new_name=
force=
@ -139,6 +139,13 @@ fi
die "git checkout: to checkout the requested commit you need to specify
a name for a new branch which is created and switched to"
if [ "X$old" = X ]
then
echo "warning: You do not appear to currently be on a branch." >&2
echo "warning: Forcing checkout of $new_name." >&2
force=1
fi
if [ "$force" ]
then
git-read-tree --reset -u $new

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@ -31,6 +31,15 @@ test_expect_success setup '
git checkout master
'
test_expect_success "checkout from non-existing branch" '
git checkout -b delete-me master &&
rm .git/refs/heads/delete-me &&
test refs/heads/delete-me = "$(git symbolic-ref HEAD)" &&
git checkout master &&
test refs/heads/master = "$(git symbolic-ref HEAD)"
'
test_expect_success "checkout with dirty tree without -m" '
fill 0 1 2 3 4 5 >one &&