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Pawan Nogariya
Pawan Nogariya

Reputation: 9000

Git Switch branch ignoring branch name case

Is there any way to do git switch ignoring the case of the branch name?

So if I have the branch with name QA, this will not work

git switch qa

Is there any way to make it work?

I am actually making an automated tool where I switch branches of many repositories, so some of my repositories have branch name qa and some with name QA and so the global script does not work even though the repositories have same name

Upvotes: 0

Views: 62

Answers (2)

Mukesh Suthar
Mukesh Suthar

Reputation: 69

Though git doesn't provide us with the obvious way, there is a simple way to achieve this

you can use grep to solve your problem
git checkout $(git branch | grep -iF "QA")

Upvotes: 0

Masudur Rahman
Masudur Rahman

Reputation: 1693

No, there's no way to do that.

Because git branch is case sensitive. That means you can actually have two different branch named qa and QA. They are completely two different branches.

  • If I run the following commands, it will create two branches.

    $ git branch qa
$ git branch QA

  • Which I can confirm by running the following.

    $ git branch
  QA
* master
  qa

So, you have to create all the branches with same case letter or you find out what branch that repo has and take action accordingly.

Upvotes: 2

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