Slightly related to this question I'd like to work with a temporary branch in a shell script.
somewhat along the lines of :
cd $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) &&
git subtree split --prefix=some_subfolder -b temp &&
git push my_remote temp:publication_branch -f
Now, I'm not sure what this will do if the branch temp
already exists, in any case I don't want the result on my_remote/publication_branch
to depend on that. And I also don't want to modify the branch temp
(assuming I have it for something unrelated). At best, I would also do a cleanup at the end
cd $(git rev-parse --show-toplevel) &&
git subtree split --prefix=some_subfolder -b temp &&
git push my_remote temp:publication_branch -f
git branch -D temp
So what I'm looking for is a way to create a temporary branch name that doesn't exist yet, similar to mktemp
? Is there a git command which can create a temporary branch name?
For this specific task you can use split without
-b
, by using this (from its manual):So