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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-checkout.txt9
-rw-r--r--builtin/checkout.c8
-rw-r--r--builtin/worktree.c2
3 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 6c3085d72d..efe6a026f1 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -111,9 +111,6 @@ OPTIONS
+
When checking out paths from the index, do not fail upon unmerged
entries; instead, unmerged entries are ignored.
-+
-By default, checking out a branch already checked out in another worktree
-is disallowed. This overrides that safeguard.
--ours::
--theirs::
@@ -228,6 +225,12 @@ This means that you can use `git checkout -p` to selectively discard
edits from your current working tree. See the ``Interactive Mode''
section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode.
+--ignore-other-worktrees::
+ `git checkout` refuses when the wanted ref is already checked
+ out by another worktree. This option makes it check the ref
+ out anyway. In other words, the ref can be held by more than one
+ worktree.
+
<branch>::
Branch to checkout; if it refers to a branch (i.e., a name that,
when prepended with "refs/heads/", is a valid ref), then that
diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index 01c7c30d54..57545543eb 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ struct checkout_opts {
int writeout_stage;
int overwrite_ignore;
int ignore_skipworktree;
+ int ignore_other_worktrees;
const char *new_branch;
const char *new_branch_force;
@@ -902,8 +903,7 @@ static void check_linked_checkout(struct branch_info *new, const char *id)
strbuf_rtrim(&gitdir);
} else
strbuf_addstr(&gitdir, get_git_common_dir());
- die(_("'%s' is already checked out at '%s'; use --force to override"),
- new->name, gitdir.buf);
+ die(_("'%s' is already checked out at '%s'"), new->name, gitdir.buf);
done:
strbuf_release(&path);
strbuf_release(&sb);
@@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@ static int checkout_branch(struct checkout_opts *opts,
char *head_ref = resolve_refdup("HEAD", 0, sha1, &flag);
if (head_ref &&
(!(flag & REF_ISSYMREF) || strcmp(head_ref, new->path)) &&
- !opts->force)
+ !opts->ignore_other_worktrees)
check_linked_checkouts(new);
free(head_ref);
}
@@ -1198,6 +1198,8 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
N_("do not limit pathspecs to sparse entries only")),
OPT_HIDDEN_BOOL(0, "guess", &dwim_new_local_branch,
N_("second guess 'git checkout no-such-branch'")),
+ OPT_BOOL(0, "ignore-other-worktrees", &opts.ignore_other_worktrees,
+ N_("do not check if another worktree is holding the given ref")),
OPT_END(),
};
diff --git a/builtin/worktree.c b/builtin/worktree.c
index 050b443dc0..69248ba0a3 100644
--- a/builtin/worktree.c
+++ b/builtin/worktree.c
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ static int add(int ac, const char **av, const char *prefix)
argv_array_push(&cmd, "checkout");
if (force)
- argv_array_push(&cmd, "--force");
+ argv_array_push(&cmd, "--ignore-other-worktrees");
if (new_branch)
argv_array_pushl(&cmd, "-b", new_branch, NULL);
if (new_branch_force)