Re: git switch/restore, still experimental?

From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: May 5, 2021, 03:46 UTC
Message-ID: <CABPp-BHBcjSQbkotrzwDtVRSC-qqjEyP4m=biY-0+=Jdg9ETQw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 3:36 AM Gábor Farkas <gabor.farkas@gmail.com> wrote:

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> hi,
>
> 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.
>
> considering that they were released two years ago, could the
> experimental-warning be removed now?
>
> thanks,
> gabor

This probably makes sense. The author of switch and restore isn't involved in the git project anymore. He decided to work on other things, which was and is a big loss for us. I think others (myself included) didn't know all the things that might have been in Duy's head that he wanted to verify were working well before marking this as good, but these two commands have generally been very well received and it has been a few years. Personally, I'm not aware of anything that we'd need or want to change with these commands.

That said, we're only a few weeks from -rc0, and I'd rather remove the experimental label early in a release cycle, so maybe this would be a good thing to do after the June git-2.32 release. That'd give plenty of time for others to chime in with anything they might be aware of that they want or need fixed.

Thanks for flagging this.

Elijah