Branching behavior with dulwich

[Nathan Menge]

Hello,

     I guess I should preface this with I am using only the porcelain layer of dulwich so far.  If I need to go into the plumbing then so be it.

     I can see through porcelain how to create a branch, but it does not make it the active branch upon creation.  I don't see a mechanism to do the equivalent of `git checkout -b <branch-name>`.

Or how to do `git checkout <branch-name>`, after the branch is created.

Am I overlooking something in porcelain?

I need to push my newly created branch as well, but I haven't gotten that far, since all my commits are being made on master after I create my branch.

Thanks in advance,

Nathan Menge

[Jelmer Vernooij]

Hi Nathan,

There indeed isn't really a way to do "git checkout -b" with the
porcelain yet. The main blocker for this functionality is
https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich/issues/452 - porcelain currently
doesn't do working tree merges.

For what you're trying to do, just changing the branch (without
merging working tree changes) should be sufficient sufficient - i.e.
"git branch blah". You should be able to just use
dulwich.porcelain.set_symbolic_ref(b"refs/heads/blah") to change the
currently active branch after you have created a branch.

Hope this helps,

Jelmer

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