You can use git switch - to switch to the previous branch. In the following example, we see switching back and forth between branches main and my_dev_branch:

C:\git\my-repo [my_dev_branch]> git switch -
Switched to branch 'main'
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
C:\git\my-repo [main ≡]> git switch -
Switched to branch 'my_dev_branch'
C:\git\my-repo [my_dev_branch]>

Edit: Old habits die hard. Updated to use switch instead of checkout since switch has a clearer responsibility. Obviously they work exactly the same for this scenario.

    • vampatori
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      1 year ago

      There’s more! Well, it’s more a bash thing than a cd thing… in bash the variable $_ refers to the last argument to the previous command. So you can do the following:

      > mkdir -p my/nested/dir
      > cd $_
      > pwd
      /home/user/my/nested/dir
      

      It’s handy for a whole host of things, like piping/touching then opening a file, chown then chmod, etc.

    • zygo_histo_morpheus@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      There’s also pushd and popd so that you can pushd into one directory, move around as much as you want and then go back to before the pushd with popd