On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ehsan Azarnasab <azarnasab@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Currently if I have a branch checked out in a work-tree, git-checkout
>> will show this error message when checking out that branch:
>>
>> $ git checkout master
>> fatal: 'master' is already checked out at '/home/dashesy/development/feature'
>>
>> It would be very useful to instead of this error just change the
>> current working directory, so git checkout would become a `cd` command
>
> That is an understandable thing to want from 10,000ft view, but it
> would not be something Git, or any external command that is spawned
> by the shell for that matter, can address. You'd need to teach the
> shell to cooperate.
> --
You could implement this for yourself as a shell function sort of, by
wrapping git, but it's a bit crazy, something like:
function git() {
# check if first argument is checkout, otherwise exec git
# check second argument, and parse git-worktree to determine if it
is checked out
# if so, just cd into the directory
# else exec git normally.
}
I'll leave actual implementations to the user. Note at least for BASH,
you need to actually do this as a function alias.
Thanks,
Jake
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