git-branch, git-checkout: autosetup for remote branch tracking
[git/dscho.git] / git-checkout.sh
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1 #!/bin/sh
3 USAGE='[-q] [-f] [-b <new_branch>] [-m] [<branch>] [<paths>...]'
4 SUBDIRECTORY_OK=Sometimes
5 . git-sh-setup
6 require_work_tree
8 old_name=HEAD
9 old=$(git-rev-parse --verify $old_name 2>/dev/null)
10 oldbranch=$(git-symbolic-ref $old_name 2>/dev/null)
11 new=
12 new_name=
13 force=
14 branch=
15 track=
16 newbranch=
17 newbranch_log=
18 merge=
19 quiet=
20 LF='
22 while [ "$#" != "0" ]; do
23 arg="$1"
24 shift
25 case "$arg" in
26 "-b")
27 newbranch="$1"
28 shift
29 [ -z "$newbranch" ] &&
30 die "git checkout: -b needs a branch name"
31 git-show-ref --verify --quiet -- "refs/heads/$newbranch" &&
32 die "git checkout: branch $newbranch already exists"
33 git-check-ref-format "heads/$newbranch" ||
34 die "git checkout: we do not like '$newbranch' as a branch name."
36 "-l")
37 newbranch_log=-l
39 "--track"|"--no-track")
40 track="$arg"
42 "-f")
43 force=1
45 -m)
46 merge=1
48 "-q")
49 quiet=1
51 --)
52 break
54 -*)
55 usage
58 if rev=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$arg^0" 2>/dev/null)
59 then
60 if [ -z "$rev" ]; then
61 echo "unknown flag $arg"
62 exit 1
64 new="$rev"
65 new_name="$arg"
66 if git-show-ref --verify --quiet -- "refs/heads/$arg"
67 then
68 branch="$arg"
70 elif rev=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$arg^{tree}" 2>/dev/null)
71 then
72 # checking out selected paths from a tree-ish.
73 new="$rev"
74 new_name="$arg^{tree}"
75 branch=
76 else
77 new=
78 new_name=
79 branch=
80 set x "$arg" "$@"
81 shift
83 case "$1" in
84 --)
85 shift ;;
86 esac
87 break
89 esac
90 done
92 case "$new_branch,$track" in
93 ,--*)
94 die "git checkout: --track and --no-track require -b"
95 esac
97 case "$force$merge" in
98 11)
99 die "git checkout: -f and -m are incompatible"
100 esac
102 # The behaviour of the command with and without explicit path
103 # parameters is quite different.
105 # Without paths, we are checking out everything in the work tree,
106 # possibly switching branches. This is the traditional behaviour.
108 # With paths, we are _never_ switching branch, but checking out
109 # the named paths from either index (when no rev is given),
110 # or the named tree-ish (when rev is given).
112 if test "$#" -ge 1
113 then
114 hint=
115 if test "$#" -eq 1
116 then
117 hint="
118 Did you intend to checkout '$@' which can not be resolved as commit?"
120 if test '' != "$newbranch$force$merge"
121 then
122 die "git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/forcing$hint"
124 if test '' != "$new"
125 then
126 # from a specific tree-ish; note that this is for
127 # rescuing paths and is never meant to remove what
128 # is not in the named tree-ish.
129 git-ls-tree --full-name -r "$new" "$@" |
130 git-update-index --index-info || exit $?
133 # Make sure the request is about existing paths.
134 git-ls-files --error-unmatch -- "$@" >/dev/null || exit
135 git-ls-files -- "$@" |
136 git-checkout-index -f -u --stdin
137 exit $?
138 else
139 # Make sure we did not fall back on $arg^{tree} codepath
140 # since we are not checking out from an arbitrary tree-ish,
141 # but switching branches.
142 if test '' != "$new"
143 then
144 git-rev-parse --verify "$new^{commit}" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
145 die "Cannot switch branch to a non-commit."
149 # We are switching branches and checking out trees, so
150 # we *NEED* to be at the toplevel.
151 cd_to_toplevel
153 [ -z "$new" ] && new=$old && new_name="$old_name"
155 # If we don't have an existing branch that we're switching to,
156 # and we don't have a new branch name for the target we
157 # are switching to, then we are detaching our HEAD from any
158 # branch. However, if "git checkout HEAD" detaches the HEAD
159 # from the current branch, even though that may be logically
160 # correct, it feels somewhat funny. More importantly, we do not
161 # want "git checkout" nor "git checkout -f" to detach HEAD.
163 detached=
164 detach_warn=
166 if test -z "$branch$newbranch" && test "$new" != "$old"
167 then
168 detached="$new"
169 if test -n "$oldbranch" && test -z "$quiet"
170 then
171 detach_warn="Note: moving to \"$new_name\" which isn't a local branch
172 If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so
173 (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:
174 git checkout -b <new_branch_name>"
176 elif test -z "$oldbranch" && test -z "$quiet"
177 then
178 echo >&2 "Previous HEAD position was $old"
181 if [ "X$old" = X ]
182 then
183 if test -z "$quiet"
184 then
185 echo >&2 "warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born."
186 echo >&2 "warning: Forcing checkout of $new_name."
188 force=1
191 if [ "$force" ]
192 then
193 git-read-tree --reset -u $new
194 else
195 git-update-index --refresh >/dev/null
196 merge_error=$(git-read-tree -m -u --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore $old $new 2>&1) || (
197 case "$merge" in
199 echo >&2 "$merge_error"
200 exit 1 ;;
201 esac
203 # Match the index to the working tree, and do a three-way.
204 git diff-files --name-only | git update-index --remove --stdin &&
205 work=`git write-tree` &&
206 git read-tree --reset -u $new || exit
208 eval GITHEAD_$new=${new_name:-${branch:-$new}} &&
209 eval GITHEAD_$work=local &&
210 export GITHEAD_$new GITHEAD_$work &&
211 git merge-recursive $old -- $new $work
213 # Do not register the cleanly merged paths in the index yet.
214 # this is not a real merge before committing, but just carrying
215 # the working tree changes along.
216 unmerged=`git ls-files -u`
217 git read-tree --reset $new
218 case "$unmerged" in
219 '') ;;
222 z40=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
223 echo "$unmerged" |
224 sed -e 's/^[0-7]* [0-9a-f]* /'"0 $z40 /"
225 echo "$unmerged"
226 ) | git update-index --index-info
228 esac
229 exit 0
231 saved_err=$?
232 if test "$saved_err" = 0 && test -z "$quiet"
233 then
234 git diff-index --name-status "$new"
236 (exit $saved_err)
240 # Switch the HEAD pointer to the new branch if we
241 # checked out a branch head, and remove any potential
242 # old MERGE_HEAD's (subsequent commits will clearly not
243 # be based on them, since we re-set the index)
245 if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
246 if [ "$newbranch" ]; then
247 git-branch $track $newbranch_log "$newbranch" "$new_name" || exit
248 branch="$newbranch"
250 if test -n "$branch"
251 then
252 GIT_DIR="$GIT_DIR" git-symbolic-ref -m "checkout: moving to $branch" HEAD "refs/heads/$branch"
253 if test -z "$quiet"
254 then
255 echo >&2 "Switched to${newbranch:+ a new} branch \"$branch\""
257 elif test -n "$detached"
258 then
259 # NEEDSWORK: we would want a command to detach the HEAD
260 # atomically, instead of this handcrafted command sequence.
261 # Perhaps:
262 # git update-ref --detach HEAD $new
263 # or something like that...
265 git-rev-parse HEAD >"$GIT_DIR/HEAD.new" &&
266 mv "$GIT_DIR/HEAD.new" "$GIT_DIR/HEAD" &&
267 git-update-ref -m "checkout: moving to $arg" HEAD "$detached" ||
268 die "Cannot detach HEAD"
269 if test -n "$detach_warn"
270 then
271 echo >&2 "$detach_warn"
274 rm -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD"
275 else
276 exit 1