git-take

Curry-style command to git checkout files

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Project Home:	https://github.com/davidosomething/git-take

About

Remembers the last branch you called git take with (persistes across sessions via storage in local git config), and provides a shortcut to git checkout BRANCH FILE.

Installation

• Add the git-take file somewhere in your path, e.g. /usr/local/bin/

via zplug

zplug "davidosomething/git-take",   as:command

Usage

From command line execute:

git take BRANCH FILENAME

This will essentially call

git checkout BRANCH FILENAME

but with the added benefit that it remembers the BRANCH on future calls.

Then, you can call

git take SOMEOTHERFILE

while will automatically assume you want SOMEOTHERFILE from the previously specified BRANCH -- e.g.

git checkout BRANCH SOMEOTHERFILE

Use cases

Sometimes I start a feature branch and find some bugs that I fix in that branch. Those bug fixes should really go into a bugfix branch and be integrated separately. So I would have:

1. git checkout -b feature to start working on a feature (topic) branch.
2. Fix up some bugs that I discover in fixedfile1 and fixedfile2
3. git checkout bugfix master to create a new clean branch off of master.
4. git take feature fixedfile
5. Using the shortcut I can now git take fixedfile2 without having to re-type the branch name (and git take fixedfile3, etc.)
6. git commit to the bugfix branch (or git reset and git add -p to patch in)

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MIT Licensed

Copyright (c) 2015 David O'Trakoun me@davidosomething.com