Subject: [PATCH v3 2/2] checkout: fix regression in checkout -b on intitial checkout

From: Ben Peart <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:02:01 -0500

From: Ben Peart <[email-masked]>

When doing a 'checkout -b' do a full checkout including updating the working
tree when doing the initial checkout. As the new test involves an filesystem
access, do it later in the sequence to give chance to other cheaper tests to
leave early. This fixes the regression in behavior caused by fa655d8411
(checkout: optimize "git checkout -b <new_branch>", 2018-08-16).

Signed-off-by: Ben Peart <[email-masked]>
---
 builtin/checkout.c         | 8 ++++++++
 t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index 6fadf412e8..9f8f3466f6 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -592,6 +592,14 @@ static int skip_merge_working_tree(const struct checkout_opts *opts,
 	 * Remaining variables are not checkout options but used to track state
 	 */
 
+	 /*
+	  * Do the merge if this is the initial checkout. We cannot use
+	  * is_cache_unborn() here because the index hasn't been loaded yet
+	  * so cache_nr and timestamp.sec are always zero.
+	  */
+	if (!file_exists(get_index_file()))
+		return 0;
+
 	return 1;
 }
 
diff --git a/t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh b/t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh
index 6da2d4e68f..c5014ad9a6 100755
--- a/t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh
+++ b/t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ test_expect_success 'checkout -B to the current branch works' '
 	test_dirty_mergeable
 '
 
-test_expect_failure 'checkout -b after clone --no-checkout does a checkout of HEAD' '
+test_expect_success 'checkout -b after clone --no-checkout does a checkout of HEAD' '
 	git init src &&
 	test_commit -C src a &&
 	rev="$(git -C src rev-parse HEAD)" &&
-- 
2.19.1.gvfs.1.16.g9d1374d