Re: git checkout does not warn about tags without corresponding commits

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> I haven't looked at the code very closely, but I think this should fix
> it.  Thorough reviewing (not just running the test suite) is much
> appreciated.

Just for fun, this will apply to 782c2d6 (Build in checkout, 2008-02-07)
and seems to fix the issue ;-)

No, I am not going to issue a maintenance release for 1.5.5 just to
include this fix, even though I could.  I do not think this is a grave
enough regression to warrant a backport beyond 1.6.0 series.

 builtin-checkout.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git i/builtin-checkout.c w/builtin-checkout.c
index 59a0ef4..1d0de68 100644
--- i/builtin-checkout.c
+++ w/builtin-checkout.c
@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 			argv++;
 			argc--;
 		} else if ((source_tree = parse_tree_indirect(rev))) {
+			new.name = arg;
 			argv++;
 			argc--;
 		}