Re: PATCH: improve git switch documentation

From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 10, 2021, 10:37 UTC
Message-ID: <3dbe1f6f-1e9d-3bcc-a7b1-4d9cde56bcde@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87im1ieaba.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

On 10/07/21 17.24, Sergey Organov wrote:

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> I believe that's because "git switch" tries to do too much. "git switch"
> should rather switch between existing branches, and do nothing else. As
> I said once in this discussion already: trouble writing good
> documentation is often indication of some flaws in the design.
> 
> Creating (a branch) is fundamentally different operation than switching
> to (a branch), and that's why the former doesn't fit into "git switch".
>

So I prefer your suggestion. Also make `git switch` also switches tags or random commits (like `git checkout <tag>` and `git checkout <commit>`).

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