Git pushd & popd? I.e., checkout last state

Question

I\'m writing a Bash script, and I want to checkout a tag and then checkout back to where I started.

I tried git co HEAD@{1}, but when starting at master, th

Answer 1

In your script, first save the current branch (like written in this answer):

branch_name="$(git symbolic-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null)" ||
branch_name="(unnamed branch)"     # detached HEAD
branch_name=${branch_name##refs/heads/}

then go and checkout the tag you want to

git checkout -b tag_branch tag_name

Do what you want to do on that branch, then checkout the old branch again:

git checkout $branch_name

That's it.