[PATCH] improve checkout message when asking for same branch

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mar 21, 2007, 02:26 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.83.0703202222280.18328@xanadu.home>

Change the feedback message if doing 'git checkout foo' when already on branch "foo".

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
---

diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh
index 39ffa8b..3c9b1bb 100755
--- a/git-checkout.sh
+++ b/git-checkout.sh
@@ -250,8 +250,13 @@ if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
 	if test -n "$branch"
 	then
 		GIT_DIR="$GIT_DIR" git-symbolic-ref -m "checkout: moving to $branch" HEAD "refs/heads/$branch"
-		if test -z "$quiet"
+		if test -n "$quiet"
 		then
+			true	# nothing
+		elif test "refs/heads/$branch" = "$oldbranch"
+		then
+			echo >&2 "Already on branch \"$branch\""
+		else
 			echo >&2 "Switched to${newbranch:+ a new} branch \"$branch\""
 		fi
 	elif test -n "$detached"