checkout: introduce --detach synonym for "git checkout foo^{commit}"

For example, one might use this when making a temporary merge to
test that two topics work well together.

Patch by Junio, with tests from Jeff King.

[jn: with some extra checks for bogus commandline usage]

Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 95 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t2020-checkout-detach.sh b/t/t2020-checkout-detach.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..00421453ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t2020-checkout-detach.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='checkout into detached HEAD state'
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+check_detached () {
+	test_must_fail git symbolic-ref -q HEAD >/dev/null
+}
+
+check_not_detached () {
+	git symbolic-ref -q HEAD >/dev/null
+}
+
+reset () {
+	git checkout master &&
+	check_not_detached
+}
+
+test_expect_success 'setup' '
+	test_commit one &&
+	test_commit two &&
+	git branch branch &&
+	git tag tag
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'checkout branch does not detach' '
+	reset &&
+	git checkout branch &&
+	check_not_detached
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'checkout tag detaches' '
+	reset &&
+	git checkout tag &&
+	check_detached
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'checkout branch by full name detaches' '
+	reset &&
+	git checkout refs/heads/branch &&
+	check_detached
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'checkout non-ref detaches' '
+	reset &&
+	git checkout branch^ &&
+	check_detached
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'checkout ref^0 detaches' '
+	reset &&
+	git checkout branch^0 &&
+	check_detached
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'checkout --detach detaches' '
+	reset &&
+	git checkout --detach branch &&
+	check_detached
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'checkout --detach without branch name' '
+	reset &&
+	git checkout --detach &&
+	check_detached
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'checkout --detach errors out for non-commit' '
+	reset &&
+	test_must_fail git checkout --detach one^{tree} &&
+	check_not_detached
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'checkout --detach errors out for extra argument' '
+	reset &&
+	git checkout master &&
+	test_must_fail git checkout --detach tag one.t &&
+	check_not_detached
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'checkout --detached and -b are incompatible' '
+	reset &&
+	test_must_fail git checkout --detach -b newbranch tag &&
+	check_not_detached
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'checkout --detach moves HEAD' '
+	reset &&
+	git checkout one &&
+	git checkout --detach two &&
+	git diff --exit-code HEAD &&
+	git diff --exit-code two
+'
+
+test_done