Sometimes people expect to checkout to a commit (or a commit which tag reference to) and develop on its corresponding branch. This may take some steps: $ git checkout v1.1 $ git log # search for the branch dev1 $ git checkout dev1 collapse the above steps into one step: $ git checkout --to-branch v1.1 Switched to branch 'refs/heads/dev1' This will help users switch to the unqiue branch quickly. Thanks. ZheNing Hu (2): checkout: handling branch_info memory leak checkout: introduce "--to-branch" option Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 8 +++- builtin/checkout.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++- t/t2018-checkout-branch.sh | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ t/t9902-completion.sh | 1 + 4 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) base-commit: abe6bb3905392d5eb6b01fa6e54d7e784e0522aa Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1095%2Fadlternative%2Fcheckout-w-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1095/adlternative/checkout-w-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1095 -- gitgitgadget
