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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-07-12 07:44:20 +0400 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2005-07-12 07:44:20 +0400 |
commit | 91dcdfd3b5331d955cfb60edf8930f1b5c142905 (patch) | |
tree | a488ae1b2b0b28df33497c6826e8fc8ef625f230 | |
parent | 714fff2aa8979c5dd169481909a364a860481f0e (diff) |
Make "git checkout" create new branches on demand
In particular, if we check out something that isn't an old branch, it
now requires a new branch-name to check the thing out into.
So, for example:
git checkout -b my-branch v2.6.12
will create the new branch "my-branch", and start it at v2.6.12, while
git checkout master
will just switch back to the master branch.
Of course, if you want to create a new branch "my-branch" and _not_
check it out, you could have done so with just
git-rev-parse v2.6.12^0 > .git/refs/heads/my-branch
which I think I will codify as "git branch".
-rwxr-xr-x | git-checkout-script | 23 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/git-checkout-script b/git-checkout-script index 48e1da9399..7e70338c47 100755 --- a/git-checkout-script +++ b/git-checkout-script @@ -5,10 +5,19 @@ old=$(git-rev-parse HEAD) new= force= branch= +newbranch= while [ "$#" != "0" ]; do arg="$1" shift case "$arg" in + "-b") + newbranch="$1" + shift + [ -z "$newbranch" ] && + die "git checkout: -b needs a branch name" + [ -e "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/$newbranch" ] && + die "git checkout: branch $newbranch already exists" + ;; "-f") force=1 ;; @@ -32,6 +41,16 @@ while [ "$#" != "0" ]; do done [ -z "$new" ] && new=$old +# +# If we don't have an old branch that we're switching to, +# and we don't have a new branch name for the target we +# are switching to, then we'd better just be checking out +# what we already had +# +[ -z "$branch$newbranch" ] && + [ "$new" != "$old" ] && + die "git checkout: you need to specify a new branch name" + if [ "$force" ] then git-read-tree --reset $new && @@ -47,6 +66,10 @@ fi # be based on them, since we re-set the index) # if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then + if [ "$newbranch" ]; then + echo $new > "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/$newbranch" + branch="$newbranch" + fi [ "$branch" ] && ln -sf "refs/heads/$branch" "$GIT_DIR/HEAD" rm -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD" fi |