idobh2 / node-gitcheckout-cli Goto Github PK

First let me say this is an amazing and useful tool, good job!

Currently, when the tool fails to checkout (when changes would be overwritten by the checkout for example), an ugly error message is printed, e.g:

Failed to execute:
{ Error: Command failed: git checkout branchname
error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout
...
Aborting

    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:270:12)
    at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:213:7)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:921:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:211:5)
  killed: false,
  code: 1,
  signal: null,
  cmd: 'git checkout branchname' }

Please consider printing a friendlier version of the error message.

It seems that most often then not, I'm checking out remote branches, it would be nice to have -o be the default option.

Maybe have the behavior be that if there's already a local branch tracking the remote one, it would "shadow" the remote branch in the list to prevent duplicate entries.

As the title says, no error is given and the branch stays the same