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
$old_name 2>/dev
/null
)
22 while [ "$#" != "0" ]; do
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 '$newbranch' as a branch name."
39 "--track"|
"--no-track")
58 if rev=$
(git-rev-parse
--verify "$arg^0" 2>/dev
/null
)
60 if [ -z "$rev" ]; then
61 echo "unknown flag $arg"
66 if git-show-ref
--verify --quiet -- "refs/heads/$arg"
70 elif rev=$
(git-rev-parse
--verify "$arg^{tree}" 2>/dev
/null
)
72 # checking out selected paths from a tree-ish.
74 new_name
="$arg^{tree}"
92 case "$new_branch,$track" in
94 die
"git checkout: --track and --no-track require -b"
97 case "$force$merge" in
99 die
"git checkout: -f and -m are incompatible"
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).
118 Did you intend to checkout '$@' which can not be resolved as commit?"
120 if test '' != "$newbranch$force$merge"
122 die
"git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/forcing$hint"
126 # from a specific tree-ish; note that this is for
127 # rescuing paths and is never meant to remove what
128 # is not in the named tree-ish.
129 git-ls-tree
--full-name -r "$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
139 # Make sure we did not fall back on $arg^{tree} codepath
140 # since we are not checking out from an arbitrary tree-ish,
141 # but switching branches.
144 git-rev-parse
--verify "$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.
153 [ -z "$new" ] && new
=$old && new_name
="$old_name"
155 # If we don't have an existing branch that we're switching to,
156 # and we don't have a new branch name for the target we
157 # are switching to, then we are detaching our HEAD from any
158 # branch. However, if "git checkout HEAD" detaches the HEAD
159 # from the current branch, even though that may be logically
160 # correct, it feels somewhat funny. More importantly, we do not
161 # want "git checkout" nor "git checkout -f" to detach HEAD.
166 if test -z "$branch$newbranch" && test "$new" != "$old"
169 if test -n "$oldbranch" && test -z "$quiet"
171 detach_warn
="Note: moving to \"$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"
178 echo >&2 "Previous HEAD position was $old"
185 echo >&2 "warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born."
186 echo >&2 "warning: Forcing checkout of $new_name."
193 git-read-tree
--reset -u $new
195 git-update-index
--refresh >/dev
/null
196 merge_error
=$
(git-read-tree
-m -u --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore
$old $new 2>&1) ||
(
199 echo >&2 "$merge_error"
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
222 z40
=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
224 sed -e 's/^[0-7]* [0-9a-f]* /'"0 $z40 /"
226 ) | git update-index
--index-info
232 if test "$saved_err" = 0 && test -z "$quiet"
234 git diff-index
--name-status "$new"
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" "$new_name" ||
exit
252 GIT_DIR
="$GIT_DIR" git-symbolic-ref
-m "checkout: moving to $branch" HEAD
"refs/heads/$branch"
255 echo >&2 "Switched to${newbranch:+ a new} branch \"$branch\""
257 elif test -n "$detached"
259 # NEEDSWORK: we would want a command to detach the HEAD
260 # atomically, instead of this handcrafted command sequence.
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 "$detach_warn"
271 echo >&2 "$detach_warn"
274 rm -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD"