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authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2007-01-09 17:37:50 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2007-01-09 17:44:59 -0800
commit75b364dfe28cf1700ac4f519ff7d3e42505e17a6 (patch)
treef62ec35e1a087ae0cda30dd6669429c3503d7e79 /git-checkout.sh
parent8d78b5af2376be533ed11b53b292bdf0f2e6173b (diff)
downloadgit-75b364dfe28cf1700ac4f519ff7d3e42505e17a6.tar.gz
git-checkout: safety check for detached HEAD checks existing refs
Checking for reachability from refs does not help much if the state we are currently on is somewhere in the middle. We will lose where we were. So this makes sureh that HEAD is something directly pointed at by one of the existing refs (most likely a tag for a user who has been "sightseeing"). Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh
index a309bf0a1a..dcf6ddbdf1 100755
--- a/git-checkout.sh
+++ b/git-checkout.sh
@@ -171,14 +171,14 @@ then
# Coming back...
if test -z "$force"
then
- mb=$(git merge-base --all $old $new) &&
- case "$LF$mb$LF" in
- *"$LF$old$LF"*) : ;;
- *) false ;;
- esac || {
+ git show-ref -d -s | grep "$old" >/dev/null || {
echo >&2 \
-"You are not on a branch and switching to $new_name branch may lose
-your changes. Use 'git checkout -f $new_name' if you want to."
+"You are not on any branch and switching to branch '$new_name'
+may lose your changes. At this point, you can do one of two things:
+ (1) Decide it is Ok and say 'git checkout -f $new_name';
+ (2) Start a new branch from the current commit, by saying
+ 'git checkout -b <branch-name>'.
+Leaving your HEAD detached; not switching to branch '$new_name'."
exit 1;
}
fi