git checkout -f renamer && git clean -f &&
git checkout renamer^ 2>messages &&
(cat >messages.expect <<EOF
-Note: moving to "renamer^" which isn'"'"'t a local branch
+Note: moving to '\''renamer^'\'' which isn'\''t a local branch
If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so
(now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:
git checkout -b <new_branch_name>
'
+test_expect_success 'switch out of non-branch' '
+ git reset --hard master &&
+ git checkout master^0 &&
+ echo modified >one &&
+ test_must_fail git checkout renamer 2>error.log &&
+ ! grep "^Previous HEAD" error.log
+'
+
test_done