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Add option to branch function to checkout branch upon creating

See original GitHub issue

As a convenience, it would be nice if the branch function offered an option to checkout a branch after it’s created. Often, when you create a branch, you also want to switch to it. This would eliminate a step in the calling code. This is similar to the checkout -b command in git. I’m thinking the option could be checkout = true.

git.branch({ ...repo, ref: 'develop', checkout: true })

The alternative would be to add this functionality to checkout (something like create = true). Right now, the checkout command will implicitly create a new remote tracking branch, but that’s not the same use case as creating a local branch (unless I’m mistaken).

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Created 5 years ago
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jcubiccommented, Dec 2, 2018

After consideration it actually don’t matter which function have this feature it’s just branch+checkout so it can be added to both or either of the commands, so I’m ok with this implementation.

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jcubiccommented, Dec 2, 2018

I think it should be in checkout since in git client there is git checkout -b so is reasonable to have the same in isomorphic-git

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