[PATCH] report where the new HEAD is upon detaching HEAD
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:01
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
After "git reset" moves the HEAD around, it reports which commit you are on, which gives the user a warm fuzzy feeling of assurance. Give the same assurance from git-checkout when moving the detached HEAD around. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted> --- git-checkout.sh | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh
index 3c9b1bb..a7390e8 100755
--- a/git-checkout.sh
+++ b/git-checkout.sh@@ -163,6 +163,13 @@ cd_to_toplevel detached= detach_warn= +describe_detached_head () { + test -n "$quiet" || { + printf >&2 "$1 " + GIT_PAGER= git log >&2 -1 --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit "$2" + } +} + if test -z "$branch$newbranch" && test "$new" != "$old" then detached="$new"
@@ -173,9 +180,9 @@ If you want to create a new branch from this (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example: git checkout -b <new_branch_name>" fi -elif test -z "$oldbranch" && test -z "$quiet" +elif test -z "$oldbranch" then - echo >&2 "Previous HEAD position was $old" + describe_detached_head 'Previous HEAD position was' "$old" fi if [ "X$old" = X ]
@@ -275,6 +282,7 @@ if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then then echo >&2 "$detach_warn" fi + describe_detached_head 'HEAD is now at' HEAD fi rm -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD" else