3 USAGE='[-q] [-f] [-b <new_branch>] [-m] [<branch>] [<paths>...]'
4 SUBDIRECTORY_OK=Sometimes
9 old=$(git rev-parse --verify $old_name 2>/dev/null)
10 oldbranch=$(git symbolic-ref $old_name 2>/dev/null)
23 while [ "$#" != "0" ]; do
30 [ -z "$newbranch" ] &&
31 die "git checkout: -b needs a branch name"
32 git show-ref --verify --quiet -- "refs/heads/$newbranch" &&
33 die "git checkout: branch $newbranch already exists"
34 git check-ref-format "heads/$newbranch" ||
35 die "git checkout: we do not like '$newbranch' as a branch name."
40 "--track"|"--no-track")
60 if rev=$(git rev-parse --verify "$arg^0" 2>/dev/null)
62 if [ -z "$rev" ]; then
63 echo "unknown flag $arg"
67 if git show-ref --verify --quiet -- "refs/heads/$arg"
69 rev=$(git rev-parse --verify "refs/heads/$arg^0")
73 elif rev=$(git rev-parse --verify "$arg^{tree}" 2>/dev/null)
75 # checking out selected paths from a tree-ish.
77 new_name="$arg^{tree}"
95 case "$newbranch,$track" in
97 die "git checkout: --track and --no-track require -b"
100 case "$force$merge" in
102 die "git checkout: -f and -m are incompatible"
105 # The behaviour of the command with and without explicit path
106 # parameters is quite different.
108 # Without paths, we are checking out everything in the work tree,
109 # possibly switching branches. This is the traditional behaviour.
111 # With paths, we are _never_ switching branch, but checking out
112 # the named paths from either index (when no rev is given),
113 # or the named tree-ish (when rev is given).
121 Did you intend to checkout '$@' which can not be resolved as commit?"
123 if test '' != "$newbranch$force$merge"
125 die "git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches/forcing$hint"
129 # from a specific tree-ish; note that this is for
130 # rescuing paths and is never meant to remove what
131 # is not in the named tree-ish.
132 git ls-tree --full-name -r "$new" "$@" |
133 git update-index --index-info || exit $?
136 # Make sure the request is about existing paths.
137 git ls-files --error-unmatch -- "$@" >/dev/null || exit
138 git ls-files -- "$@" |
139 git checkout-index -f -u --stdin
142 # Make sure we did not fall back on $arg^{tree} codepath
143 # since we are not checking out from an arbitrary tree-ish,
144 # but switching branches.
147 git rev-parse --verify "$new^{commit}" >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
148 die "Cannot switch branch to a non-commit."
152 # We are switching branches and checking out trees, so
153 # we *NEED* to be at the toplevel.
156 [ -z "$new" ] && new=$old && new_name="$old_name"
158 # If we don't have an existing branch that we're switching to,
159 # and we don't have a new branch name for the target we
160 # are switching to, then we are detaching our HEAD from any
161 # branch. However, if "git checkout HEAD" detaches the HEAD
162 # from the current branch, even though that may be logically
163 # correct, it feels somewhat funny. More importantly, we do not
164 # want "git checkout" nor "git checkout -f" to detach HEAD.
169 describe_detached_head () {
170 test -n "$quiet" || {
172 GIT_PAGER= git log >&2 -1 --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit "$2"
176 if test -z "$branch$newbranch" && test "$new_name" != "$old_name"
179 if test -n "$oldbranch" && test -z "$quiet"
181 detach_warn="Note: moving to \"$new_name\" which isn't a local branch
182 If you want to create a new branch from this checkout, you may do so
183 (now or later) by using -b with the checkout command again. Example:
184 git checkout -b <new_branch_name>"
186 elif test -z "$oldbranch" && test "$new" != "$old"
188 describe_detached_head 'Previous HEAD position was' "$old"
195 echo >&2 "warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born."
196 echo >&2 "warning: Forcing checkout of $new_name."
203 git read-tree $v --reset -u $new
205 git update-index --refresh >/dev/null
206 merge_error=$(git read-tree -m -u --exclude-per-directory=.gitignore $old $new 2>&1) || (
209 echo >&2 "$merge_error"
213 # Match the index to the working tree, and do a three-way.
214 git diff-files --name-only | git update-index --remove --stdin &&
215 work=`git write-tree` &&
216 git read-tree $v --reset -u $new || exit
218 eval GITHEAD_$new='${new_name:-${branch:-$new}}' &&
219 eval GITHEAD_$work=local &&
220 export GITHEAD_$new GITHEAD_$work &&
221 git merge-recursive $old -- $new $work
223 # Do not register the cleanly merged paths in the index yet.
224 # this is not a real merge before committing, but just carrying
225 # the working tree changes along.
226 unmerged=`git ls-files -u`
227 git read-tree $v --reset $new
232 z40=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
234 sed -e 's/^[0-7]* [0-9a-f]* /'"0 $z40 /"
236 ) | git update-index --index-info
242 if test "$saved_err" = 0 && test -z "$quiet"
244 git diff-index --name-status "$new"
250 # Switch the HEAD pointer to the new branch if we
251 # checked out a branch head, and remove any potential
252 # old MERGE_HEAD's (subsequent commits will clearly not
253 # be based on them, since we re-set the index)
255 if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then
256 if [ "$newbranch" ]; then
257 git branch $track $newbranch_log "$newbranch" "$new_name" || exit
262 old_branch_name=`expr "z$oldbranch" : 'zrefs/heads/\(.*\)'`
263 GIT_DIR="$GIT_DIR" git symbolic-ref -m "checkout: moving from $old_branch_name to $branch" HEAD "refs/heads/$branch"
267 elif test "refs/heads/$branch" = "$oldbranch"
269 echo >&2 "Already on branch \"$branch\""
271 echo >&2 "Switched to${newbranch:+ a new} branch \"$branch\""
273 elif test -n "$detached"
275 git update-ref --no-deref -m "checkout: moving to $arg" HEAD "$detached" ||
276 die "Cannot detach HEAD"
277 if test -n "$detach_warn"
279 echo >&2 "$detach_warn"
281 describe_detached_head 'HEAD is now at' HEAD
283 rm -f "$GIT_DIR/MERGE_HEAD"