start checking the "normal" state every time

doNormal.go

@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ func checkNormalRepoState(repo *gitpb.Repo) error {
 
 	if repo.GetCurrentBranchName() != repo.GetUserBranchName() {
 		configSave = true
+		log.Info("crapnuts")
 		repo.CheckoutUser()
 		repo.Reload()
 		return log.Errorf("now on user branch")

doPatch.go

@@ -12,7 +12,11 @@ import (
 
 func doPatchInit() {
 	if me.forge.Patchsets != nil {
-		log.Info("IGNORE: patches already initalized")
+		if me.forge.Patchsets.Len() == 0 {
+			// log.Info("IGNORE: patches are empty")
+		} else {
+			log.Info("IGNORE: patches already initalized len =", me.forge.Patchsets.Len())
+		}
 	}
 	if err := me.forge.LoadPatchsets(); err != nil {
 		log.Info("patches failed to open", err)
@@ -82,6 +86,10 @@ func doPatch() error {
 		me.forge.Patchsets.PrintTable()
 		// return doPatchList()
 		applied := findApplied()
+		if applied.Len() == 0 {
+			log.Info("no patches have to appled to the devel branch yet")
+			return nil
+		}
 		// for patch := range applied.IterAll() {
 		// 	log.Info("SEND APPLIED: newhash:", patch.NewHash, "commithash:", patch.CommitHash, "patch", patch.Namespace)
 		// }

main.go

@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ func main() {
 	}
 
 	if argv.Checkout != nil {
+		me.forge.Config.Mode = forgepb.ForgeMode_MASTER
 		if err := doCheckout(); err != nil {
 			badExit(err)
 		}
@@ -120,6 +121,7 @@ func main() {
 	}
 
 	if argv.Clean != nil {
+		me.forge.Config.Mode = forgepb.ForgeMode_CLEAN
 		if argv.Clean.Repo != "" {
 			log.Info("only looking at repo:", argv.Clean.Repo)
 			okExit("")
@@ -140,11 +142,24 @@ func main() {
 	if argv.Normal != nil {
 		if doNormal() {
 			log.Infof("all %d repos are on your user branch. It is safe to write code now.\n", me.forge.Repos.Len())
+			if me.forge.Config.Mode != forgepb.ForgeMode_NORMAL {
+				log.Infof("Forge has set the mode to 'Normal'\n")
+				me.forge.Config.Mode = forgepb.ForgeMode_NORMAL
+				me.forge.ConfigSave()
+			}
 			okExit("")
 		}
 		okExit("")
 	}
 
+	// if you are in "normal" mode, always run normal every time to catch accidental errors
+	// for example, if you accidentally changed branches from your user branch
+	if me.forge.Config.Mode == forgepb.ForgeMode_NORMAL {
+		if doNormal() {
+			log.Infof("all %d repos are still normal\n", me.forge.Repos.Len())
+		}
+	}
+
 	if argv.Dirty != nil {
 		doDirty()
 		okExit("")