From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:29:52 GMT
Subject: Re: git branch --switch?
Message-ID: <4624D9E0.7080303@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0704170721i2b64999aqbd0d7489074454d6@mail.gmail.com>

On 04/17/2007 04:21 PM, Alex Riesen wrote:

> On 4/17/07, Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Is it possible to switch the current branch without checking it out?

[ ... ]

> Kind of. It can be done with git-read-tree. I.e.:
> 
>  $ git-read-tree --index-output=.git/tmp-index <branch-name> && \
>     mv tmp-index .git/index && \
>     git update-ref HEAD <branch-name>

Eew. Thank you. Maybe...

Rene.