3 USAGE
='[-f] [-b <new_branch>] [-m] [<branch>] [<paths>...]'
4 SUBDIRECTORY_OK
=Sometimes
7 old
=$
(git-rev-parse HEAD
)
13 while [ "$#" != "0" ]; do
20 [ -z "$newbranch" ] &&
21 die
"git checkout: -b needs a branch name"
22 [ -e "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/$newbranch" ] &&
23 die
"git checkout: branch $newbranch already exists"
24 git-check-ref-format
"heads/$newbranch" ||
25 die
"we do not like '$newbranch' as a branch name."
40 if rev=$
(git-rev-parse
--verify "$arg^0" 2>/dev
/null
)
42 if [ -z "$rev" ]; then
43 echo "unknown flag $arg"
47 if [ -f "$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/$arg" ]; then
50 elif rev=$
(git-rev-parse
--verify "$arg^{tree}" 2>/dev
/null
)
52 # checking out selected paths from a tree-ish.
66 # The behaviour of the command with and without explicit path
67 # parameters is quite different.
69 # Without paths, we are checking out everything in the work tree,
70 # possibly switching branches. This is the traditional behaviour.
72 # With paths, we are _never_ switching branch, but checking out
73 # the named paths from either index (when no rev is given),
74 # or the named tree-ish (when rev is given).
78 if test '' != "$newbranch$force$merge"
80 die
"updating paths and switching branches or forcing are incompatible."
84 # from a specific tree-ish; note that this is for
85 # rescuing paths and is never meant to remove what
86 # is not in the named tree-ish.
87 git-ls-tree
--full-name -r "$new" "$@" |
88 git-update-index
--index-info ||
exit $?
90 git-checkout-index
-f -u -- "$@"
93 # Make sure we did not fall back on $arg^{tree} codepath
94 # since we are not checking out from an arbitrary tree-ish,
95 # but switching branches.
98 git-rev-parse
--verify "$new^{commit}" >/dev
/null
2>&1 ||
99 die
"Cannot switch branch to a non-commit."
103 # We are switching branches and checking out trees, so
104 # we *NEED* to be at the toplevel.
105 cdup
=$
(git-rev-parse
--show-cdup)
111 [ -z "$new" ] && new
=$old
113 # If we don't have an old branch that we're switching to,
114 # and we don't have a new branch name for the target we
115 # are switching to, then we'd better just be checking out
116 # what we already had
118 [ -z "$branch$newbranch" ] &&
119 [ "$new" != "$old" ] &&
120 die
"git checkout: you need to specify a new branch name"
124 git-read-tree
--reset $new &&
125 git-checkout-index
-q -f -u -a
127 git-update-index
--refresh >/dev
/null
128 merge_error
=$
(git-read-tree
-m -u $old $new 2>&1) ||
(
131 echo >&2 "$merge_error"
135 # Match the index to the working tree, and do a three-way.
136 git diff-files
--name-only | git update-index
--remove --stdin &&
137 work
=`git write-tree` &&
138 git read-tree
--reset $new &&
139 git checkout-index
-f -u -q -a &&
140 git read-tree
-m -u $old $new $work ||
exit
142 if result
=`git write-tree 2>/dev/null`
144 echo >&2 "Trivially automerged."
146 git merge-index
-o git-merge-one-file
-a
149 # Do not register the cleanly merged paths in the index yet.
150 # this is not a real merge before committing, but just carrying
151 # the working tree changes along.
152 unmerged
=`git ls-files -u`
153 git read-tree
--reset $new
158 z40
=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
160 sed -e 's/^[0-7]* [0-9a-f]* /'"0 $z40 /"
162 ) | git update-index
--index-info
168 git diff-files
--name-status
173 # Switch the HEAD pointer to the new branch if we
174 # checked out a branch head, and remove any potential
175 # old MERGE_HEAD's (subsequent commits will clearly not
176 # be based on them, since we re-set the index)
178 if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
179 if [ "$newbranch" ]; then
180 leading
=`expr "refs/heads/$newbranch" : '\(.*\)/'` &&
181 mkdir
-p "$GIT_DIR/$leading" &&
182 echo $new >"$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/$newbranch" ||
exit
186 GIT_DIR
="$GIT_DIR" git-symbolic-ref HEAD
"refs/heads/$branch"
187 rm -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD"