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From: Bert Douglas <bertd@tplogic.com>
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Bert Douglas <bertd@tplogic.com> writes:
>
>   
>> Am I going to have to do "-f" a lot?
>> How will I know when to do it?
>> Why not do it all the time?
>>     
>
> With recent enough git, you shouldn't even have to do that extra
> "git checkout".  It was noticed and fixed quite a while ago.
>
>   
Thanks much.

$ git --version
git version 1.5.2.4

But I guess my basic question remains in two parts.
(1) Will it 'get out of sync' again sometime ?
(2) Will anything bad happen if I always do 'checkout -f' ?