3 USAGE
='[-q] [-f] [-b <new_branch>] [-m] [<branch>] [<paths>...]'
4 SUBDIRECTORY_OK
=Sometimes
9 old
=$
(git rev-parse
--verify $old_name 2>/dev
/null
)
10 oldbranch
=$
(git symbolic-ref
$old_name 2>/dev
/null
)
23 while [ "$#" != "0" ]; do
30 [ -z "$newbranch" ] &&
31 die
"git checkout: -b needs a branch name"
32 git show-ref
--verify --quiet -- "refs/heads/$newbranch" &&
33 die
"git checkout: branch $newbranch already exists"
34 git check-ref-format
"heads/$newbranch" ||
35 die
"git checkout: we do not like '$newbranch' as a branch name."
40 "--track"|
"--no-track")
60 if rev=$
(git rev-parse
--verify "$arg^0" 2>/dev
/null
)
62 if [ -z "$rev" ]; then
63 echo "unknown flag $arg"
67 if git show-ref
--verify --quiet -- "refs/heads/$arg"
69 rev=$
(git rev-parse
--verify "refs/heads/$arg^0")
73 elif rev=$
(git rev-parse
--verify "$arg^{tree}" 2>/dev
/null
)
75 # checking out selected paths from a tree-ish.
77 new_name
="$arg^{tree}"
95 case "$newbranch,$track" in
97 die
"git checkout: --track and --no-track require -b"
100 case "$force$merge" in
102 die
"git checkout: -f and -m are incompatible"
105 # The behaviour of the command with and without explicit path
106 # parameters is quite different.
108 # Without paths, we are checking out everything in the work tree,
109 # possibly switching branches. This is the traditional behaviour.
111 # With paths, we are _never_ switching branch, but checking out
112 # the named paths from either index (when no rev is given),
113 # or the named tree-ish (when rev is given).
121 Did you intend to checkout '$@' which can not be resolved as commit?"
123 if test '' != "$newbranch$force$merge"
125 die
"git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/forcing$hint"
129 # from a specific tree-ish; note that this is for
130 # rescuing paths and is never meant to remove what
131 # is not in the named tree-ish.
132 git ls-tree
--full-name -r "$new" "$@" |
133 git update-index
--index-info ||
exit $?
136 # Make sure the request is about existing paths.
137 git ls-files
--error-unmatch -- "$@" >/dev
/null ||
exit
138 git ls-files
-- "$@" |
139 git checkout-index
-f -u --stdin
141 # Run a post-checkout hook -- the HEAD does not change so the
142 # current HEAD is passed in for both args
143 if test -x "$GIT_DIR"/hooks
/post-checkout
; then
144 "$GIT_DIR"/hooks
/post-checkout
$old $old 0
149 # Make sure we did not fall back on $arg^{tree} codepath
150 # since we are not checking out from an arbitrary tree-ish,
151 # but switching branches.
154 git rev-parse
--verify "$new^{commit}" >/dev
/null
2>&1 ||
155 die
"Cannot switch branch to a non-commit."
159 # We are switching branches and checking out trees, so
160 # we *NEED* to be at the toplevel.
163 [ -z "$new" ] && new
=$old && new_name
="$old_name"
165 # If we don't have an existing branch that we're switching to,
166 # and we don't have a new branch name for the target we
167 # are switching to, then we are detaching our HEAD from any
168 # branch. However, if "git checkout HEAD" detaches the HEAD
169 # from the current branch, even though that may be logically
170 # correct, it feels somewhat funny. More importantly, we do not
171 # want "git checkout" nor "git checkout -f" to detach HEAD.
176 describe_detached_head
() {
177 test -n "$quiet" ||
{
179 GIT_PAGER
= git log
>&2 -1 --pretty=oneline
--abbrev-commit "$2"
183 if test -z "$branch$newbranch" && test "$new_name" != "$old_name"
186 if test -n "$oldbranch" && test -z "$quiet"
188 detach_warn
="Note: moving to \"$new_name\" which isn't a local branch
189 If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so
190 (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:
191 git checkout -b <new_branch_name>"
193 elif test -z "$oldbranch" && test "$new" != "$old"
195 describe_detached_head
'Previous HEAD position was' "$old"
202 echo >&2 "warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born."
203 echo >&2 "warning: Forcing checkout of $new_name."
210 git read-tree
$v --reset -u $new
212 git update-index
--refresh >/dev
/null
213 merge_error
=$
(git read-tree
-m -u --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore
$old $new 2>&1) ||
(
216 echo >&2 "$merge_error"
220 # Match the index to the working tree, and do a three-way.
221 git diff-files
--name-only | git update-index
--remove --stdin &&
222 work
=`git write-tree` &&
223 git read-tree
$v --reset -u $new ||
exit
225 eval GITHEAD_
$new='${new_name:-${branch:-$new}}' &&
226 eval GITHEAD_
$work=local &&
227 export GITHEAD_
$new GITHEAD_
$work &&
228 git merge-recursive
$old -- $new $work
230 # Do not register the cleanly merged paths in the index yet.
231 # this is not a real merge before committing, but just carrying
232 # the working tree changes along.
233 unmerged
=`git ls-files -u`
234 git read-tree
$v --reset $new
239 z40
=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
241 sed -e 's/^[0-7]* [0-9a-f]* /'"0 $z40 /"
243 ) | git update-index
--index-info
249 if test "$saved_err" = 0 && test -z "$quiet"
251 git diff-index
--name-status "$new"
257 # Switch the HEAD pointer to the new branch if we
258 # checked out a branch head, and remove any potential
259 # old MERGE_HEAD's (subsequent commits will clearly not
260 # be based on them, since we re-set the index)
262 if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
263 if [ "$newbranch" ]; then
264 git branch
$track $newbranch_log "$newbranch" "$new_name" ||
exit
269 old_branch_name
=`expr "z$oldbranch" : 'zrefs/heads/\(.*\)'`
270 GIT_DIR
="$GIT_DIR" git symbolic-ref
-m "checkout: moving from $old_branch_name to $branch" HEAD
"refs/heads/$branch"
274 elif test "refs/heads/$branch" = "$oldbranch"
276 echo >&2 "Already on branch \"$branch\""
278 echo >&2 "Switched to${newbranch:+ a new} branch \"$branch\""
280 elif test -n "$detached"
282 git update-ref
--no-deref -m "checkout: moving to $arg" HEAD
"$detached" ||
283 die
"Cannot detach HEAD"
284 if test -n "$detach_warn"
286 echo >&2 "$detach_warn"
288 describe_detached_head
'HEAD is now at' HEAD
290 rm -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD"
295 # Run a post-checkout hook
296 if test -x "$GIT_DIR"/hooks
/post-checkout
; then
297 "$GIT_DIR"/hooks
/post-checkout
$old $new 1