From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:46:38 GMT
Subject: Re: git branch --switch?
Message-ID: <F47212AE-B31D-4025-9859-6794E7405DF2@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0704170721i2b64999aqbd0d7489074454d6@mail.gmail.com>


On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Alex Riesen wrote:

> 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