Re: [PATCH] doc: use "git switch -c" rather than "git checkout -b" consistently

> On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 2:58 PM <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> wrote:
>> On January 9, 2023 2:17 PM, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>> >On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 6:20 AM <rsbecker@nexbridge.com> wrote:
>> >> 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).
>> >
>> >Such a point probably should have been raised when 328c6cb853 (doc:
>> >promote "git switch", 2019-03-29) was submitted, but since 328c6cb853 was
>> >merged nearly four years ago and has been pointing people at git-switch all this
>> >time, it's probably too late to use it as an argument now.
>>
>> I agree. Perhaps it is time to drop the "EXPERIMENTAL" notices from 'git switch', in that case.
>
> Perhaps. Perhaps not. As I recall, both Felipe and Ævar expressed
> rather serious concerns that git-switch is not yet ready as a proper
> git-checkout replacement. Samples of their concerns can be found at
> [1] and [2], for instance.
>
> By the way, git-worktree is even older and probably more widely used
> than git-switch, yet it is still marked "experimental", as well, and
> perhaps rightly so. As far as I understand, for instance, it still
> isn't compatible with submodules (though there may have been some
> recent work from one of the Googlers in that area?).
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/211021.86wnm6l1ip.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com/
> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAPiPmQnb=XMaF2+YkryEbiX8zA=jwa5y=fbAGk9jpCExpbS4Rw@mail.gmail.com/T/