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Re: git branch --switch?

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Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date
Apr 17, 2007, 14:46 UTC
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On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Alex Riesen wrote:
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> 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>

This does not appear to do what you think it will. git update-ref will write the SHA1 of <branch-name> into the current HEAD, not switch HEAD to a new branch.

However, the first two lines will correctly update the index to the new head which is probably a good idea.

~~ Brian
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