Re: git diffs

From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date: Aug 1, 2005, 07:55 UTC
Message-ID: <pan.2005.08.01.07.55.40.43904@smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0507311725590.14342@g5.osdl.org>

Hi, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> 	git checkout -f master
> 	git-rev-parse master > .git/refs/heads/merge-branch
> 
> 	#
> 	# Switch to it, always leaving "master" untouched
> 	#
> 	git checkout -f merge-branch

Isn't that equivalent to (but slower than)

    git checkout -f -b merge-branch master

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