git-branch -D: make it work even when on a yet-to-be-born branch

diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh
index 119bca1ffbfb8fb0dae404a8e7389f577aebc42c..737abd0c094ae6cfb201fb46c28f4962a9826a02 100755 (executable)
--- a/git-checkout.sh
+++ b/git-checkout.sh
@@ -77,6 +77,11 @@ while [ "$#" != "0" ]; do
     esac
 done
 
+case "$force$merge" in
+11)
+       die "git checkout: -f and -m are incompatible"
+esac
+
 # The behaviour of the command with and without explicit path
 # parameters is quite different.
 #
@@ -107,7 +112,11 @@ Did you intend to checkout '$@' which can not be resolved as commit?"
                git-ls-tree --full-name -r "$new" "$@" |
                git-update-index --index-info || exit $?
        fi
-       git-checkout-index -f -u -- "$@"
+
+       # Make sure the request is about existing paths.
+       git-ls-files --error-unmatch -- "$@" >/dev/null || exit
+       git-ls-files -- "$@" |
+       git-checkout-index -f -u --stdin
        exit $?
 else
        # Make sure we did not fall back on $arg^{tree} codepath