[PATCH v2 0/3] teach git-checkout -B WAS builtin/checkout: DWIM with -f -b
- From
Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jun 23, 2010, 19:28 UTC
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- <1277321340-4000-1-git-send-email-rctay89@gmail.com>
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- <1277140782-4064-1-git-send-email-rctay89@gmail.com>
Right now, the -f/--force in git-checkout doesn't carry over to -b operations - ie. you can't do git checkout -b branch on an existing branch.
This patch allows you to do this with the -B option, so that one can do
git checkout -B branch ref
which is equivalent to
git branch -f branch ref && git checkout branch
Changes from v1: - reworked option handling - don't replace <new_branch> with <branch> in documentation
Contents: [PATCH v2 1/3] add tests for checkout -b [PATCH v2 2/3] builtin/checkout: reword hint for -b [PATCH v2 3/3] builtin/checkout: learn -B
Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 21 +++++- builtin/checkout.c | 32 ++++++-- t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh | 166 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 211 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) create mode 100755 t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh