From 3ec51ce5878b2d52c7410521e64b184c22528063 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Fromm <sfromm@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 23:34:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Checkout branch before rebase in switch_version

---
 git | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/git b/git
index fe354b45bfe..dbc0cf5857d 100755
--- a/git
+++ b/git
@@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ def switch_version(module, dest, remote, version):
             cmd = "git checkout --force %s" % version
     else:
         # is there a better way to do this?
+        branch = get_head_branch(module, dest, remote)
+        (rc, out, err) = _run("git checkout --force %s" % branch)
+        if rc != 0:
+            module.fail_json(msg="Failed to checkout branch %s" % branch)
         cmd = "git rebase %s" % remote
     return _run(cmd)