Re: git-pull-script on my linus tree fails..

Jeff Garzik
2005-06-22T09:21:58Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And hey, if you don't like the feature, you can always just use the "-f"
> flag, which will act the way your old script did, and always just throw
> any pending changes away when you check out a new branch.

hehe, that's what I am doing ;-)

For fast-forward merges, I use "git checkout". For everything else in
my workflow, I use "git checkout -f $branch"

I'm not sure that I, personally, will ever use "git checkout $branch"
without "-f".

Jeff