git-status: show detached HEAD

[git] / git-checkout.sh

#!/bin/sh

USAGE='[-f] [-b <new_branch>] [-m] [<branch>] [<paths>...]'
SUBDIRECTORY_OK=Sometimes
. git-sh-setup

old_name=HEAD
old=$(git-rev-parse --verify $old_name 2>/dev/null)
new=
new_name=
force=
branch=
newbranch=
newbranch_log=
merge=
while [ "$#" != "0" ]; do
    arg="$1"
    shift
    case "$arg" in
        "-b")
                newbranch="$1"
                shift
                [ -z "$newbranch" ] &&
                        die "git checkout: -b needs a branch name"
                git-show-ref --verify --quiet -- "refs/heads/$newbranch" &&
                        die "git checkout: branch $newbranch already exists"
                git-check-ref-format "heads/$newbranch" ||
                        die "git checkout: we do not like '$newbranch' as a branch name."
                ;;
        "-l")
                newbranch_log=1
                ;;
        "-f")
                force=1
                ;;
        -m)
                merge=1
                ;;
        --)
                break
                ;;
        -*)
                usage
                ;;
        *)
                if rev=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$arg^0" 2>/dev/null)
                then
                        if [ -z "$rev" ]; then
                                echo "unknown flag $arg"
                                exit 1
                        fi
                        new="$rev"
                        new_name="$arg^0"
                        if git-show-ref --verify --quiet -- "refs/heads/$arg"
                        then
                                branch="$arg"
                        fi
                elif rev=$(git-rev-parse --verify "$arg^{tree}" 2>/dev/null)
                then
                        # checking out selected paths from a tree-ish.
                        new="$rev"
                        new_name="$arg^{tree}"
                        branch=
                else
                        new=
                        new_name=
                        branch=
                        set x "$arg" "$@"
                        shift
                fi
                case "$1" in
                --)
                        shift ;;
                esac
                break
                ;;
    esac
done

case "$force$merge" in
11)
        die "git checkout: -f and -m are incompatible"
esac

# The behaviour of the command with and without explicit path
# parameters is quite different.
#
# Without paths, we are checking out everything in the work tree,
# possibly switching branches.  This is the traditional behaviour.
#
# With paths, we are _never_ switching branch, but checking out
# the named paths from either index (when no rev is given),
# or the named tree-ish (when rev is given).

if test "$#" -ge 1
then
        hint=
        if test "$#" -eq 1
        then
                hint="
Did you intend to checkout '$@' which can not be resolved as commit?"
        fi
        if test '' != "$newbranch$force$merge"
        then
                die "git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/forcing$hint"
        fi
        if test '' != "$new"
        then
                # from a specific tree-ish; note that this is for
                # rescuing paths and is never meant to remove what
                # is not in the named tree-ish.
                git-ls-tree --full-name -r "$new" "$@" |
                git-update-index --index-info || exit $?
        fi

        # Make sure the request is about existing paths.
        git-ls-files --error-unmatch -- "$@" >/dev/null || exit
        git-ls-files -- "$@" |
        git-checkout-index -f -u --stdin
        exit $?
else
        # Make sure we did not fall back on $arg^{tree} codepath
        # since we are not checking out from an arbitrary tree-ish,
        # but switching branches.
        if test '' != "$new"
        then
                git-rev-parse --verify "$new^{commit}" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
                die "Cannot switch branch to a non-commit."
        fi
fi

# We are switching branches and checking out trees, so
# we *NEED* to be at the toplevel.
cdup=$(git-rev-parse --show-cdup)
if test ! -z "$cdup"
then
        cd "$cdup"
fi

[ -z "$new" ] && new=$old && new_name="$old_name"

# If we don't have an old branch that we're switching to,
# and we don't have a new branch name for the target we
# are switching to, then we'd better just be checking out
# what we already had

[ -z "$branch$newbranch" ] &&
        [ "$new" != "$old" ] &&
        die "git checkout: provided reference cannot be checked out directly

  You need -b to associate a new branch with the wanted checkout. Example:
  git checkout -b <new_branch_name> $arg
"

if [ "X$old" = X ]
then
        echo "warning: You do not appear to currently be on a branch." >&2
        echo "warning: Forcing checkout of $new_name." >&2
        force=1
fi

if [ "$force" ]
then
    git-read-tree --reset -u $new
else
    git-update-index --refresh >/dev/null
    merge_error=$(git-read-tree -m -u --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore $old $new 2>&1) || (
        case "$merge" in
        '')
                echo >&2 "$merge_error"
                exit 1 ;;
        esac

        # Match the index to the working tree, and do a three-way.
        git diff-files --name-only | git update-index --remove --stdin &&
        work=`git write-tree` &&
        git read-tree --reset -u $new &&
        git read-tree -m -u --aggressive --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore $old $new $work ||
        exit

        if result=`git write-tree 2>/dev/null`
        then
            echo >&2 "Trivially automerged."
        else
            git merge-index -o git-merge-one-file -a
        fi

        # Do not register the cleanly merged paths in the index yet.
        # this is not a real merge before committing, but just carrying
        # the working tree changes along.
        unmerged=`git ls-files -u`
        git read-tree --reset $new
        case "$unmerged" in
        '')     ;;
        *)
                (
                        z40=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
                        echo "$unmerged" |
                        sed -e 's/^[0-7]* [0-9a-f]* /'"0 $z40 /"
                        echo "$unmerged"
                ) | git update-index --index-info
                ;;
        esac
        exit 0
    )
    saved_err=$?
    if test "$saved_err" = 0
    then
        test "$new" = "$old" || git diff-index --name-status "$new"
    fi
    (exit $saved_err)
fi

# 
# Switch the HEAD pointer to the new branch if we
# checked out a branch head, and remove any potential
# old MERGE_HEAD's (subsequent commits will clearly not
# be based on them, since we re-set the index)
#
if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
        if [ "$newbranch" ]; then
                if [ "$newbranch_log" ]; then
                        mkdir -p $(dirname "$GIT_DIR/logs/refs/heads/$newbranch")
                        touch "$GIT_DIR/logs/refs/heads/$newbranch"
                fi
                git-update-ref -m "checkout: Created from $new_name" "refs/heads/$newbranch" $new || exit
                branch="$newbranch"
        fi
        [ "$branch" ] &&
        GIT_DIR="$GIT_DIR" git-symbolic-ref HEAD "refs/heads/$branch"
        rm -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD"
else
        exit 1
fi