Re: [PATCH] cmd_reset: don't trash uncommitted changes unless told to

From: Matthias Kestenholz <mk@spinlock.ch>
Date: Jun 25, 2008, 10:24 UTC
Message-ID: <1214389498.6634.10.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0806251109380.9925@racer>

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 11:16 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Incidentally, a friend just told me that "checkout" is everything but 
> intuitive, and he would have preferred "git branch switch <branch>", but 
> then settled for my proposed "git branch --switch <branch>", which I did 
> not have time to implement yet, unfortunately.

But why? I don't want to 'branch', I want to 'checkout' another branch, which incidentally matches the git command I need to use to achieve that.

Matthias

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