A one-liner function to find a branch by a keyword and checkout the result in git. Should be added to your aliases.
I switch branches in my projects a lot. What I'm always struggling with, though, is remembering branch names.
In my team, branch naming convention is [feature/bugfix]/<ticketNumber>-<description-in-snake-case> which makes it hard to guess branch name if you're in a hurry.
I wrote a shortcut command to help with those cases. Here it is in my .zshrc:
function gbco() {
git checkout $(git branch | grep -i "$1")
}
gbco is short for git branch checkout (not a real command, just easy for me to remember).
We're doing a git checkout command and pass the result of whatever is in $() as a parameter.
In the parentheses, we list all the branches of a current repo using git branch, and then pass that output into a grep command to search within. -i flag will make sure that search is case-insensitive, and "$1" is there to pass the first argument after gbco command.
I'm looking for a branch that has a word project in the name.
$ gbco project
Switched to branch 'feature/us261565-labs-project-id'
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/feature/us261565-labs-project-id'.
This function does not cover cases when more than 1 branch contains a keyword for your search, or when no branches are found. I might think of handling those cases later.