As suggested by Junio, adding the current branch name to the reflog message for git-checkout would be helpful. For example: "checkout: moving from next to master" Signed-off-by: Sean Estabrooks <seanlkml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/git-checkout.sh b/git-checkout.sh index e00b697..17f4392 100755 --- a/git-checkout.sh +++ b/git-checkout.sh @@ -259,7 +259,8 @@ if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then fi if test -n "$branch" then - GIT_DIR="$GIT_DIR" git symbolic-ref -m "checkout: moving to $branch" HEAD "refs/heads/$branch" + old_branch_name=`expr "z$oldbranch" : 'zrefs/heads/\(.*\)'` + GIT_DIR="$GIT_DIR" git symbolic-ref -m "checkout: moving from $old_branch_name to $branch" HEAD "refs/heads/$branch" if test -n "$quiet" then true # nothing - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html