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
"git checkout: 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 "$arg^{tree}" 2>/dev
/null
)
52 # checking out selected paths from a tree-ish.
66 # The behaviour of the command with and without explicit path
67 # parameters is quite different.
69 # Without paths, we are checking out everything in the work tree,
70 # possibly switching branches. This is the traditional behaviour.
72 # With paths, we are _never_ switching branch, but checking out
73 # the named paths from either index (when no rev is given),
74 # or the named tree-ish (when rev is given).
82 Did you intend to checkout '$@' which can not be resolved as commit?"
84 if test '' != "$newbranch$force$merge"
86 die
"git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/forcing$hint"
90 # from a specific tree-ish; note that this is for
91 # rescuing paths and is never meant to remove what
92 # is not in the named tree-ish.
93 git-ls-tree
--full-name -r "$new" "$@" |
94 git-update-index
--index-info ||
exit $?
96 git-checkout-index
-f -u -- "$@"
99 # Make sure we did not fall back on $arg^{tree} codepath
100 # since we are not checking out from an arbitrary tree-ish,
101 # but switching branches.
104 git-rev-parse
--verify "$new^{commit}" >/dev
/null
2>&1 ||
105 die
"Cannot switch branch to a non-commit."
109 # We are switching branches and checking out trees, so
110 # we *NEED* to be at the toplevel.
111 cdup
=$
(git-rev-parse
--show-cdup)
117 [ -z "$new" ] && new
=$old
119 # If we don't have an old branch that we're switching to,
120 # and we don't have a new branch name for the target we
121 # are switching to, then we'd better just be checking out
122 # what we already had
124 [ -z "$branch$newbranch" ] &&
125 [ "$new" != "$old" ] &&
126 die
"git checkout: to checkout the requested commit you need to specify
127 a name for a new branch which is created and switched to"
131 git-read-tree
--reset $new &&
132 git-checkout-index
-q -f -u -a
134 git-update-index
--refresh >/dev
/null
135 merge_error
=$
(git-read-tree
-m -u $old $new 2>&1) ||
(
138 echo >&2 "$merge_error"
142 # Match the index to the working tree, and do a three-way.
143 git diff-files
--name-only | git update-index
--remove --stdin &&
144 work
=`git write-tree` &&
145 git read-tree
--reset $new &&
146 git checkout-index
-f -u -q -a &&
147 git read-tree
-m -u $old $new $work ||
exit
149 if result
=`git write-tree 2>/dev/null`
151 echo >&2 "Trivially automerged."
153 git merge-index
-o git-merge-one-file
-a
156 # Do not register the cleanly merged paths in the index yet.
157 # this is not a real merge before committing, but just carrying
158 # the working tree changes along.
159 unmerged
=`git ls-files -u`
160 git read-tree
--reset $new
165 z40
=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
167 sed -e 's/^[0-7]* [0-9a-f]* /'"0 $z40 /"
169 ) | git update-index
--index-info
175 if test "$saved_err" = 0
177 test "$new" = "$old" || git diff-index
--name-status "$new"
183 # Switch the HEAD pointer to the new branch if we
184 # checked out a branch head, and remove any potential
185 # old MERGE_HEAD's (subsequent commits will clearly not
186 # be based on them, since we re-set the index)
188 if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
189 if [ "$newbranch" ]; then
190 leading
=`expr "refs/heads/$newbranch" : '\(.*\)/'` &&
191 mkdir
-p "$GIT_DIR/$leading" &&
192 echo $new >"$GIT_DIR/refs/heads/$newbranch" ||
exit
196 GIT_DIR
="$GIT_DIR" git-symbolic-ref HEAD
"refs/heads/$branch"
197 rm -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD"