Re: git branch --switch?

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