Re: git branch --switch?

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 17, 2007, 14:21 UTC
Message-ID: <81b0412b0704170721i2b64999aqbd0d7489074454d6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4624CD58.90103@gmail.com>

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

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> Is it possible to switch the current branch without checking it out? Not
> really essential, but I'm happily flaundering around with git and still
> start from scratch fairly regularly; to speed this up I've found the -n
> switch to git clone useful and would like something similar when
> reconstructing my "branch hierarchies".
>
> Upto now I only know about "git checkout" (with or without -b) to switch the
> current branch. As said it's not really essential, but I was expecting there
> would be something like a "branch --switch". Did I overlook it?

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>