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From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Subject: Re: git diffs
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 09:55:47 +0200
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Hi, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 	git checkout -f master
> 	git-rev-parse master > .git/refs/heads/merge-branch
> 
> 	#
> 	# Switch to it, always leaving "master" untouched
> 	#
> 	git checkout -f merge-branch

Isn't that equivalent to (but slower than)

    git checkout -f -b merge-branch master

?

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