/git-fuckout

Command to make git checkout fucking happen

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git fuckout

Command to make git checkout fucking happen.

Why?

~/my-repo (on feature/awesome) $ git checkout feature/cool
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout:
	some-file.txt

~/my-repo (on feature/awesome) $

# WTF?! Oh, I have to stash changes...

~/my-repo (on feature/awesome) $ git stash -u
Saved working directory and index state WIP on feature/awesome: 6b6309d0 Some commit message
~/my-repo (on feature/awesome) $ git checkout feature/cool

# do some work on feature/cool

~/my-repo (on feature/cool) $ git checkout feature/awesome
~/my-repo (on feature/awesome) $ git stash pop

Life is too short for this shit. Especially when you do it regularly on many branches. So welcome git fuckout to do this fucking job.

~/my-repo (on feature/awesome) $ git fuckout feature/cool
~/my-repo (on feature/cool) $

# Yay!

The name is an abbreviation from "fucking checkout".

What it does?

The idea is very simple.

  1. When you do git fuckout <my-branch> it checks if there are any local changes. If there are any tool will commit them into current branch and than perform usual git checkout command with same arguments as provided to git fuckout.

  2. After git checkout is completed, tool will look for the commit with local changes it created when you switched from the branch and will perform a soft reset to transform this commit back into local changes. Note that this part is performed even if you use usual git checkout command for changing branch.

Installation

Instructions below are for Mac OS, but steps for other platforms should be pretty similar.

$ git clone https://github.com/devoto13/git-fuckout.git
$ cd git-fuckout
$ ln -s `pwd`/git-fuckout /usr/local/bin/git-fuckout # link main executable to your $PATH
$ ln -s `pwd`/git-fuckout-completion.bash /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/git-fuckout-completion.bash # optionally add completion for command
$ ln -s `pwd`/hooks/post-checkout /path/to/my-repo/.git/hooks/post-checkout # should be done for every repo separately

Usage

Simply git fuckout <branch>.