From: Kenneth Cochran Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 15:45:45 GMT Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add alias option to git branch Message-ID: <47CA9077-E8C1-4093-8B36-2D5D3DE2D886@gmail.com> From c1bad54b29ae1c1d8548d248f6ecaa5959e55f7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kenneth Cochran Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2019 09:40:22 -0600 Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/4] Add alias option to git branch Cc: Sahil Dua , Duy Nguyen , Jeff King I find myself often using git symbolic-ref to get around work requirements to use branch names that are not very human friendly. There are a few problems with this: - There’s a lot of text to type - Mistyping certain parts (heads/refs) will do things other than create a branch alias - It will happily overwrite an existing branch - Deleting one that is checked out will put HEAD in an invalid state. I think this solution is much better; however, I’m not super familiar with the codebase, so I’m sure it can be improved. I’d appreciate any feedback. Kenneth Cochran (4): branch: add "--alias" option to create an alias refs: add function to iteratively dereference symref chain worktree: symref should be found anywhere in chain branch: disallow accidentally breaking symrefs Documentation/git-branch.txt | 8 ++++ builtin/branch.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++- refs.c | 28 ++++++++++++ refs.h | 13 ++++++ t/t3207-branch-alias.sh | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ worktree.c | 18 +++++--- 6 files changed, 191 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) create mode 100755 t/t3207-branch-alias.sh -- 2.17.1