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Alter git-checkout reflog message to include "from" branch

From
Sean <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
Date
Jul 4, 2007, 08:33 UTC
Message-ID
<20070704043336.0cfa4d8a.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
    
    As suggested by Junio, adding the current branch name to the
    reflog message for git-checkout would be helpful.  For example:
    
       "checkout: moving from next to master"
    
    Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh
index e00b697..17f4392 100755
--- a/git-checkout.sh
+++ b/git-checkout.sh
@@ -259,7 +259,8 @@ if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
 	fi
 	if test -n "$branch"
 	then
-		GIT_DIR="$GIT_DIR" git symbolic-ref -m "checkout: moving to $branch" HEAD "refs/heads/$branch"
+		old_branch_name=`expr "z$oldbranch" : 'zrefs/heads/\(.*\)'`
+		GIT_DIR="$GIT_DIR" git symbolic-ref -m "checkout: moving from $old_branch_name to $branch" HEAD "refs/heads/$branch"
 		if test -n "$quiet"
 		then
 			true	# nothing
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  1. SeanJul 4, 2007

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