RE: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2019, #06; Thu, 25)

> "Randall S. Becker" <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> writes:
> 
> > On 01 Aug 2019 13:05:12, Junio wrote:
> >> >> *snip*
> >
> > I think this got missed in the shuffle, but I am getting questions
> > about the topic from my own team that I cannot answer.
> >
> > I noticed that the switch and restore commands are now available in
> > 2.23.0 but are not discussed in recent What's Cooking or Git Rev (or I
> > blithely missed them). The question from my team is what are the plans
> > for deprecating checkout. They have loads of scripts and want to plan
> > for moving over.
> 
> The two new commands were done in response to a common "checkout
> does two different things, either checkout a branch in order to start

> on it, or checkout paths into the current workspace to work on them"
> complaint.  Those who are used to and are OK with the "git" command that
> changes behaviour based on the rest of args (i.e.
> "checkout <branchname>" and "checkout [<tree-ish>] <pathspec>" are the
> ways to obtain these two behaviours) can safely keep using the command
> they are familiar with.
> 
> I do not think there currently is any plan to deprecate checkout.