Re: git switch/restore, still experimental?

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 5, 2021, 17:46 UTC
Message-ID: <6092da0ccf4e9_1d24520833@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <877dkdwgfe.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> In summary, I think it should be changed to act like this:
>     
>     |---------------------------+------------------------+---------------------------|
>     | What                      | Now                    | New                       |
>     |---------------------------+------------------------+---------------------------|
>     | Switch                    | git switch existing    | git switch existing       |
>     | Error                     | git switch nonexisting | <no change (errors)>      |
>     | Switch with --merge       | git switch -m branch   | git switch --merge branch |
>     | Create                    | git switch -c new      | git switch -n new         |
>     | Create from existing      | N/A                    | git switch -c new [<old>] |
>     | Move & switch to existing | N/A                    | git switch -m new [<old>] |
>     |---------------------------+------------------------+---------------------------|

I'm in favor of this too.

> In its current state I find "git switch" to be unusable. That sounds
> like dramatic hyperbole, but I'm serious.

I concur.

I've tried to use it multiple times, and I always come back to using git branch / git checkout.

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Felipe Contreras