On 4/17/07, Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is it possible to switch the current branch without checking it out? Not
really essential, but I'm happily flaundering around with git and still
start from scratch fairly regularly; to speed this up I've found the -n
switch to git clone useful and would like something similar when
reconstructing my "branch hierarchies".
Upto now I only know about "git checkout" (with or without -b) to switch the
current branch. As said it's not really essential, but I was expecting there
would be something like a "branch --switch". Did I overlook it?
Kind of. It can be done with git-read-tree. I.e.:
$ git-read-tree --index-output=.git/tmp-index <branch-name> && \
mv tmp-index .git/index && \
git update-ref HEAD <branch-name>
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