From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2021 17:10:35 GMT
Subject: RE: switch requires --detach [[Re: What actually is a branch]]
Message-ID: <60e8830b2f6ed_16bcb20836@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <008701d774e0$d3220f40$79662dc0$@nexbridge.com>

Randall S. Becker wrote:
> In all of this discussion, please be aware that many CI/CD systems use
> sparse checkout and detached heads as a matter of efficiency and
> certainty. Please ensure that you are not changing the semantics of
> existing capabilities when restricting what `git switch` will do. I am
> concerned about the 280,342 (as of this minute) current Jenkins users
> who depend on this.

I doubt 280,342 Jenkins users depend on `git switch`.

And `git help switch`:

  THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. THE BEHAVIOR MAY CHANGE.

-- 
Felipe Contreras