Add repo start option to create the branch based off HEAD
This makes it way easier to recover from forgetting to run repo start
before committing: just run `repo start -b new-branch`, instead of
all that tedious mucking around with reflogs.
Change-Id: I56d49dce5d027e28fbba0507ac10cd763ccfc36d
Reviewed-on: https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/git-repo/+/232712
Reviewed-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Pursehouse <dpursehouse@collab.net>
Tested-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@google.com>
diff --git a/project.py b/project.py
index 8212e0c..4076bc5 100755
--- a/project.py
+++ b/project.py
@@ -1697,7 +1697,7 @@
# Branch Management ##
- def StartBranch(self, name, branch_merge=''):
+ def StartBranch(self, name, branch_merge='', revision=None):
"""Create a new branch off the manifest's revision.
"""
if not branch_merge:
@@ -1718,7 +1718,11 @@
branch.merge = branch_merge
if not branch.merge.startswith('refs/') and not ID_RE.match(branch_merge):
branch.merge = R_HEADS + branch_merge
- revid = self.GetRevisionId(all_refs)
+
+ if revision is None:
+ revid = self.GetRevisionId(all_refs)
+ else:
+ revid = self.work_git.rev_parse(revision)
if head.startswith(R_HEADS):
try: