On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
>
> Hi, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > git checkout -f master
> > git-rev-parse master > .git/refs/heads/merge-branch
> >
> > #
> > # Switch to it, always leaving "master" untouched
> > #
> > git checkout -f merge-branch
>
> Isn't that equivalent to (but slower than)
>
> git checkout -f -b merge-branch master
No.
If you had a previous merge-branch (because something went wrong last
time, and you just re-start the whole thing), you really want to _first_
force the branch to "master", and then create the new merge-branch.
Also, the last "git checkout -f merge-branch" will be pretty much zero
time, because the stuff is already at the right point, so it will
basically end up just re-doing the symlink.
So I did it that strange way for a reason.
Linus
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