From: rsbecker@nexbridge.com
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2023 11:17:37 GMT
Subject: RE: [PATCH] doc: use "git switch -c" rather than "git checkout -b" consistently
Message-ID: <018501d9241b$fe4b1270$fae13750$@nexbridge.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqbkn8wcqo.fsf@gitster.g>

On January 8, 2023 11:31 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>"Yutaro Ohno via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> From: Yutaro Ohno <yutaro.ono.418@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: use "git switch -c" rather than "git
>> checkout -b" consistently
>
>Hmph.  When two things work equally well, is it a good idea to describe
only one
>"consistently", or mention both that can be used pretty much
interchangeably in
>different places?  I am not 100% sure "consistently" is a good thing here.
>
>Thoughts from others?

git switch is still marked as EXPERIMENTAL in the online help. I don't think
moving broadly to switch from checkout in the documentation should happen
until the EXPERIMENTAL designation is dropped. After that, then "switch -c"
should be used everywhere instead of checkout (except for in the checkout
documentation).

--Randall