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From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
To: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git branch --switch?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:44:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4624EB76.2030700@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0704170811h510ce0afn1b2277b752bdf422@mail.gmail.com>

On 04/17/2007 05:11 PM, Alex Riesen wrote:

> ach, right. Dangerous: it can change the ref HEAD points to. Very sorry!
> Better just:
> 
> $ rm .git/HEAD && git symbolic-ref HEAD "refs/heads/<branch-name>"

Thanks.

> In the end, you just have git-checkout minus git-checkout-index. Maybe
> a "git-checkout -n" can be useful. Even though I can't imagine what for.

Thought about that as well, to keep with clone, but giving "checkout" an 
option to not checkout seems somewhat odd.

"git branch -s" for "not only create but Set current to it as well" maybe?

Rene.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-17 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-17 13:36 git branch --switch? Rene Herman
2007-04-17 14:21 ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-17 14:29   ` Rene Herman
2007-04-17 14:46   ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-04-17 15:11     ` Alex Riesen
2007-04-17 15:44       ` Rene Herman [this message]
2007-04-17 14:31 ` Brian Gernhardt
2007-04-17 15:41   ` Rene Herman
2007-04-17 15:47     ` Rene Herman
2007-04-17 15:55     ` Lars Hjemli
2007-04-17 16:10       ` Rene Herman
2007-04-17 16:50         ` Randal L. Schwartz
2007-04-17 17:03           ` Rene Herman
2007-04-17 17:00         ` Lars Hjemli
2007-04-17 17:27           ` Rene Herman
2007-04-17 16:24     ` Rene Herman
2007-04-17 16:44       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-17 16:55         ` Rene Herman

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