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-rw-r--r--builtin/checkout.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index 160f678b8c..c3647934c7 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -1091,7 +1091,7 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
if (opts.writeout_stage)
die(_("--ours/--theirs is incompatible with switching branches."));
- if (!new.commit) {
+ if (!new.commit && opts.new_branch) {
unsigned char rev[20];
int flag;