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From: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re* [BUG] "git checkout -b" erronously thinks a branch already exists
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 10:26:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106061026.38996.stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1uz7bkc9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hello Junio, and thanks for your quick answer.

On Monday 06 June 2011, Junio C wrote:
> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > I think the right fix is to make sure that "refs/heads/<name>" does not
> > exist by checking exactly that.
> >
> > Perhaps something like this.  I am not sure if we want to use the "yield
> > non zero to signal not an error but an early return" trick like I did in
> > this patch, though.
> 
> Let's do this instead. I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that
> inefficient "loop refs to see if there is that one" patch.
> 
> [CUT PATCH]
>
I can confirm this change fixes the problem for me.

Thanks,
  Stefano

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-06  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-05 11:05 [BUG] "git checkout -b" erronously thinks a branch already exists Stefano Lattarini
2011-06-06  1:38 ` Re* " Junio C Hamano
2011-06-06  5:27   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-06-06  8:26     ` Stefano Lattarini [this message]
2011-06-06 16:05     ` Jeff King

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