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When checkout sees that HEAD points to a non-existent ref, it currently acts as if "-f" was given; this behavior dates back to 5a03e7f, which enabled checkout from unborn branches in the shell version of "git-checkout". The reasoning given is to avoid the code path which tries to merge the tree contents. When checkout was converted to C, this code remained intact. The unfortunate side effect of this strategy is that the "force" code path will overwrite working tree and index state that may be precious to the user. Instead of enabling "force", this patch uses the normal "merge" codepath for an unborn branch, but substitutes the empty tree for the "old" commit. This means that in the absence of an index, any files in the working tree will be treated as untracked files, and a checkout which would overwrite them is aborted. Similarly, any paths in the index will be merged with an empty entry as the base, meaning that unless the new branch's content is identical to what's in the index, there will be a conflict and the checkout will be aborted. The user is then free to correct the situation or proceed with "-f" as appropriate. This patch also removes the "warning: you are on a branch yet to be born" message. Its function was to warn the user that we were enabling the "-f" option. Since we are no longer doing that, there is no reason for the user to care whether we are switching away from an unborn branch. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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GIT - the stupid content tracker
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"git" can mean anything, depending on your mood.
- random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not
actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a
mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant.
- stupid. contemptible and despicable. simple. Take your pick from the
dictionary of slang.
- "global information tracker": you're in a good mood, and it actually
works for you. Angels sing, and a light suddenly fills the room.
- "goddamn idiotic truckload of sh*t": when it breaks
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an
unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations
and full access to internals.
Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License.
It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with help of a group of
hackers around the net. It is currently maintained by Junio C Hamano.
Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started, then see
Documentation/everyday.txt for a useful minimum set of commands, and
Documentation/git-commandname.txt for documentation of each command.
If git has been correctly installed, then the tutorial can also be
read with "man gittutorial" or "git help tutorial", and the
documentation of each command with "man git-commandname" or "git help
commandname".
CVS users may also want to read Documentation/gitcvs-migration.txt
("man gitcvs-migration" or "git help cvs-migration" if git is
installed).
Many Git online resources are accessible from http://git.or.cz/
including full documentation and Git related tools.
The user discussion and development of Git take place on the Git
mailing list -- everyone is welcome to post bug reports, feature
requests, comments and patches to git@vger.kernel.org. To subscribe
to the list, send an email with just "subscribe git" in the body to
majordomo@vger.kernel.org. The mailing list archives are available at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=git and other archival sites.
The messages titled "A note from the maintainer", "What's in
git.git (stable)" and "What's cooking in git.git (topics)" and
the discussion following them on the mailing list give a good
reference for project status, development direction and
remaining tasks.