From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:44:54 GMT
Subject: Re: git branch --switch?
Message-ID: <4624EB76.2030700@gmail.com>
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.