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-rw-r--r--builtin/checkout.c2
-rwxr-xr-xt/t2015-checkout-unborn.sh11
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index 160f678..c364793 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;
diff --git a/t/t2015-checkout-unborn.sh b/t/t2015-checkout-unborn.sh
index 6352b74..37bdced 100755
--- a/t/t2015-checkout-unborn.sh
+++ b/t/t2015-checkout-unborn.sh
@@ -46,4 +46,15 @@ test_expect_success 'checking out another branch from unborn state' '
test_cmp expect actual
'
+test_expect_success 'checking out in a newly created repo' '
+ test_create_repo empty &&
+ (
+ cd empty &&
+ git symbolic-ref HEAD >expect &&
+ test_must_fail git checkout &&
+ git symbolic-ref HEAD >actual &&
+ test_cmp expect actual
+ )
+'
+
test_done