Re: [PATCH] git-checkout --push/--pop

From: David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Dec 5, 2007, 17:44 UTC
Message-ID: <877ijt2g0q.fsf@lysator.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <vpqir3de8t6.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> writes:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Matthieu, is this something that forgetful people would find useful?
>
> Not sure. That's obviously an interesting feature, but adding two more
> options to checkout (which is already a huge swiss-army knife) might
> not be worth the trouble.
>
> And the issue with push/pop approaches is that I usually notice I have
> to use pop after not having used push (i.e. I use "cd -" all the time,
> but rarely "pushd"/"popd").

It is probably more common that you want to be able to switch back to the previous branch, than that you actually need a full stack.

So a "git checkout --previous" could be enough.  Or a set of aliases

[alias]
	co = !"git symbolic-ref HEAD | sed -ne 's!refs/heads/!!p' > .git/LAST ; git checkout"
        pop = !"git co $(cat .git/LAST)"

-- 
David Kågedal