From: Lars Hjemli <hjemli@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:55:32 GMT
Subject: Re: git branch --switch?
Message-ID: <8c5c35580704170855ke426d86vac6e9b3b67fea5ea@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4624EAAA.6040000@gmail.com>

On 4/17/07, Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> wrote:
> git clone -l -s -n <a local linux repo> local
> git checkout -b v20 v2.6.20
> git branch a
> git branch b
> git branch c
>
> Step 1, 3, 4 and 5 of this are nearly instantaneous but 2 isn't

I might have misunderstood your goal, but have you tried

 git clone -l -s -n <a local linux repo> local
 git branch a v2.6.20
 git branch b a
 git branch c a

Now a, b and c all point at v2.6.20, while HEAD points as master.

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larsh