You can also avoid doing the two git checkouts by just doing "git branch branch_i_may_need" and you'll stay in your current one. I do that all the time, though

You can also avoid doing the two git checkouts by just doing "git branch branch_i_may_need" and you'll stay in your current one. I do that all the time, though i had no clue about git rev-parse. That's a great time saver.