Allow checkout -B <current-branch> to update the current branch

When on master, "git checkout -B master <commit>" is a more natural way to
say "git reset --keep <commit>", which was originally invented for the
exact purpose of moving to the named commit while keeping the local changes
around.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit is contained in:
Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-26 02:54:55 -06:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 3f59481e33
commit 39bd6f7261
5 changed files with 23 additions and 12 deletions

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@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ int cmd_branch(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
if (kinds != REF_LOCAL_BRANCH)
die(_("-a and -r options to 'git branch' do not make sense with a branch name"));
create_branch(head, argv[0], (argc == 2) ? argv[1] : head,
force_create, reflog, track);
force_create, reflog, 0, track);
} else
usage_with_options(builtin_branch_usage, options);