Overly aggressive disabling of branching

Thanks for all the work on this extension, it’s coming along nicely!

I often will make uncommited changes to a repository, then later decide I want to commit them in a new branch. Git allows one to checkout a new branch when there are uncommited changes (or even staged changes), and then proceed as normal. However, when I try that in the UI, I get an error message saying

Creating new branch disabled

You have staged changes in current branch. Please commit / discard them before creating a new branch.

Is this disabling of branching really necessary? It’s not a hard git requirement (also, note that the error message is incorrect if there are unstaged changes). Apologies if there is already an issue discussing this, I didn’t find one after a quick search.

[dhirschfeld]

As a power user, I hate unnecessary dialogs that you have to click through so I’d very much appreciate a setting to disable that.

[fcollonval]

So let’s go for prompting a warning dialog and not using a setting. This is simple and does not require advanced users to know about a setting. users tend to go to the documentation or the git repository rather that looking for settings.