Re: What's cooking in git.git (Apr 2019, #05; Thu, 25)

> * en/unicode-in-refnames (2019-04-24) 1 commit
>  - Honor core.precomposeUnicode in more places
>
>  The names of the refs stored as filesystem entities may become
>  different from what the end-user expects, just like files in the
>  working tree gets "renamed", on a filesystem like HFS+.  Work it
>  around by paying attemption to the core.precomposeUnicode
>  configuration.
>
>  Looked sensible.  Ready for next?

> * nd/switch-and-restore (2019-04-12) 43 commits
>  - help: move git-diff and git-reset to different groups
>  - rm: add --staged as alias for --cached
>  - doc: promote "git restore"
>  - user-manual.txt: prefer 'merge --abort' over 'reset --hard'
>  - completion: support restore
>  - t: add tests for restore
>  - restore: support --patch
>  - restore: replace --force with --ignore-unmerged
>  - restore: default to --source=HEAD when only --staged is specified
>  - restore: reject invalid combinations with --staged
>  - restore: add --worktree and --staged
>  - checkout: factor out worktree checkout code
>  - restore: disable overlay mode by default
>  - restore: make pathspec mandatory
>  - restore: take tree-ish from --source option instead
>  - checkout: split part of it to new command 'restore'
>  - doc: promote "git switch"
>  - completion: support switch
>  - t: add tests for switch
>  - switch: make --orphan switch to an empty tree
>  - switch: reject if some operation is in progress
>  - switch: no worktree status unless real branch switch happens
>  - switch: implicit dwim, use --no-guess to disable it
>  - switch: add short option for --detach
>  - switch: only allow explicit detached HEAD
>  - switch: reject "do nothing" case
>  - switch: stop accepting pathspec
>  - switch: remove -l
>  - switch: add --discard-changes
>  - switch: better names for -b and -B
>  - checkout: split part of it to new command 'switch'
>  - checkout: split options[] array in three pieces
>  - checkout: move 'confict_style' and 'dwim_..' to checkout_opts
>  - checkout: make "opts" in cmd_checkout() a pointer
>  - checkout: factor out some code in parse_branchname_arg()
>  - checkout: keep most #include sorted
>  - checkout: inform the user when removing branch state
>  - checkout: advice how to get out of detached HEAD mode
>  - t: rename t2014-switch.sh to t2014-checkout-switch.sh
>  - git-checkout.txt: fix monospace typeset
>  - doc: document --overwrite-ignore
>  - git-checkout.txt: fix one syntax line
>  - git-checkout.txt: spell out --no-option
>
>  Two new commands "git switch" and "git restore" are introduced to
>  split "checking out a branch to work on advancing its history" and
>  "checking out paths out of the index and/or a tree-ish to work on
>  advancing the current history" out of the single "git checkout"
>  command.
>
>  The "switch" part seems more or less ready for testing.  Perhaps
>  we should split this back into two topics and merge it to 'next'.
>  cf. <20190329103919.15642-1-pclouds@gmail.com> (switch v6)
>  cf. <20190411131218.19195-1-pclouds@gmail.com> (restore v2)