On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 09:22 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > severity 645636 normal > tags 645636 + upstream > quit > > Hi Soeren, > > Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > > This upload breaks the behaviour of > > > > git branch -M master > > > > which is supposed to overwrite the master branch if it exists > [...] > > mkdir foo && cd foo > > git init > > /usr/bin/git fetch -t git://github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun.git +master > > /usr/bin/git reset --hard 72d1bdeb46bf0c63c9d59c940930f2dba1bb6111 > > git branch -M master > > I agree that it would be intuitive for "git branch -M" and "git > checkout -B" to be willing to modify an already-checked-out branch, > but I thought they did not do so in 1.7.2.5-2, either. What am I > missing?
Well that works in git 1.7.2.X up to version 1.7.6-X but no longer in at least 1.7.7-2 Sorry about the confusion. I only figured this out because of a suddenly 100% failing buildbot (with the root cause being this git bug). Soeren -- For the one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic. -- Arthur C. Clarke, 1962
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