If no argument provided to `git branch`, show available branches and
mark current branch with star.
This is based on patch written by Amos Waterland <apw@rossby.metr.ou.edu>.
[jc: and I changed it to handle subdirectories under refs/heads/ as well.]
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <Kalle.Valo@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
When not specifying the start point explicitly, we ended up
emitting ^0 in addition to the default HEAD. Be careful to see
if we have "$2" before finding out which commit to base the new
branch on.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
You can use it as
git branch <branchname> [start-point]
and it creates a new branch of name <branchname>. If a starting point
is specified, that will be where the branch is created, otherwise it
will be created at the current HEAD.
The sequence
git branch xyz abc
git checkout xyz
can also be written as
git checkout -b xyz abc
as per the previous commit.
