From 45f926c234b00b81331a42f36c58b908eb097f4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin von Zweigbergk <martinvonz@google.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2021 11:10:49 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] cli: don't require --allow-backwards when creating a branch

If a branch doesn't exist yet, it's clearly safe to move it "forward"
to any commit (it was simply a bug that we required
`--allow-backards`).
---
 src/commands.rs | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/commands.rs b/src/commands.rs
index d8163e1f5..a10c82019 100644
--- a/src/commands.rs
+++ b/src/commands.rs
@@ -2056,15 +2056,13 @@ fn cmd_backout(
 
 fn is_fast_forward(repo: RepoRef, branch_name: &str, new_target_id: &CommitId) -> bool {
     if let Some(current_target) = repo.view().get_local_branch(branch_name) {
-        if current_target
+        current_target
             .adds()
             .iter()
             .any(|add| repo.index().is_ancestor(add, new_target_id))
-        {
-            return true;
-        }
+    } else {
+        true
     }
-    false
 }
 
 fn cmd_branch(