Re: git branch --switch?

From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 17, 2007, 16:55 UTC
Message-ID: <4624FBEB.5080805@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704170938510.5473@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On 04/17/2007 06:44 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> So you could have avoided the checkout completely, and done
> 
> 	git clone -l -s -n <a local linux repo> local
> 	git branch v20 v2.6.20
> 	git branch a v20
> 	git branch b v20
> 	git branch c v20
> 
> and now you'd have four branches that all point to the v20 thing, and none 
> of them are actually checked out. And all of that would have been 
> instantaneous, even on an old machine (apart fromt he clone itself, of 
> course ;)

Yes, this is exactly what I wanted, thank you. I'm only learning about "git branch" (as opposed to git checkout -b) now and it didn't in fact occur to me that I could specify that <start-point> although I should've noticed in the manpage and certainly in Lars' reply from a few minutes back -- managed to go into that and still not have it click.

Nothing left for me to desire...

Rene.