RE: git switch/restore, still experimental?

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 4, 2021, 19:54 UTC
Message-ID: <6091a67824041_b32c320862@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <CAPiPmQnb=XMaF2+YkryEbiX8zA=jwa5y=fbAGk9jpCExpbS4Rw@mail.gmail.com>

Gábor Farkas wrote:

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> the "git switch" and "git restore" commands were released two years
> ago, but the manpage still says "THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. THE
> BEHAVIOR MAY CHANGE.".
> 
> i'd love to use them, but this warning gives me pause, perhaps i
> should wait until it stops being experimental, i worry that it might
> change in behavior unexpectedly and cause problems for me.

It's precisely because the behavior may change that they are labeled as experimental.

I have 15 of experience using git, and I have tried to use them but to me they are too cumbersome.

For example I would expect this to work:

  git restore @~ -- file

But it doesn't, I need to specify `-s @~`.

git checkout is more user-friendly to me, so purpose of git restore is defeated.

If the interface is changed, perhaps it will be useful to me. It isn't at the moment.

Cheers.

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Felipe Contreras