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From: Marcus Kida <marcus.kida@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Bug: git branch -D can be used to delete branch which is currently checked out
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:20:21 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CE5AE06C-0909-414E-B901-7CCF3A259465@gmail.com> (raw)

Testes on: 

Mac OS X 10.11.3 (El Capitan) using Git 2.6.4

Issue:

git branch -D can be used to delete branch which is currently checked out

Steps to reproduce:

inside a git repository:

$ git checkout -b feature/myAwesomeFeature

-> you end up in feature/myAwesomeFeature branch

$ git checkout FEATURE/myAwesomeFeature

-> you end up in FEATURE/myAwesomeFeature branch

$ git branch -D feature/myAwesomeFeature branch

-> BOOM you just deleted the branch you were at. Congrats you repo is dirty again.

Actual behaviour:

It seems like checking out / deleting branches is case insensitive thus you can delete a branch you are on by just using a different capitalisation when specifying the branch to delete.

Expected behaviour:

error: Cannot delete the branch 'FEATURE/myAwesomeFeature' which you are currently on.

Thank you, please don't hesitate to contact me in case you need more info or if this has already been fixed in the meantime.

Cheers,
Marcus

             reply	other threads:[~2016-03-10  8:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-10  8:20 Marcus Kida [this message]
2016-03-10 17:40 ` Bug: git branch -D can be used to delete branch which is currently checked out Junio C Hamano
2016-03-10 18:23   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-03-10 18:38     ` Marcus Kida

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