Is there any way to git checkout previous branch?
From the release notes for 1.6.2
@{-1}is a way to refer to the last branch you were on. This is
accepted not only where an object name is expected, but anywhere a branch name is expected and acts as if you typed the branch name.
E.g.git branch --track mybranch @{-1},git merge @{-1}, andgit rev-parse --symbolic-full-name @{-1}would work as expected.
and
git checkout -is a shorthand forgit checkout @{-1}.
The simplest way of doing this nowadays is:
git checkout -... which is an alias of:
git checkout @{-1}
If you want to know more about this, I wrote an entire article about it here: Checkout The Previous Branch In Git.
As @Karl points out and from git checkout manual:
As a special case, the "@{-N}" syntax for the N-th last branch checks out the branch (instead of detaching). You may also specify - which is synonymous with "@{-1}".
So both git checkout - and git checkout @{-1} would work in this case
Closest I believe is using the git reflog and parse the latest moving from branch1 to branch2 and git checkout branch1