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

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Aug 9, 2019, 16:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20190809162900.GA9094@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <001e01d54ebb$9a1ab4b0$ce501e10$@nexbridge.com>

On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 10:06:06AM -0400, Randall S. Becker wrote:

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> 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.

I don't know of any plans for checkout in particular, but I think the docs for restore/switch make it clear that it's way too early to start scripting around them:

  $ git grep EXPERIMENTAL Documentation/
  Documentation/git-restore.txt:THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. THE BEHAVIOR MAY CHANGE.
  Documentation/git-switch.txt:THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. THE BEHAVIOR MAY CHANGE.

-Peff