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Use this to checkout a branch ending with a certain string
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git-usebranch
#!/usr/bin/env bash
branch=`git branch -a | egrep -io "([^/]+/)?[^/]+$1$" | sed 's/* //' | head -1`
git checkout $branch
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Store it under /usr/local/bin/git-usebranch and add a git alias from usebranch to use, then:

git use 440

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To setup alias edit ~/.gitconfig:

[alias]
    use = usebranch

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