Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2019, #06; Thu, 25)

From: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 9, 2019, 18:05 UTC
Message-ID: <CABURp0pb4QY+Qbvn6YAtQ=bevSQW+vQXFMChyd_phtUK4P5M7w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq36iadygk.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 10:48 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> > I don't know of any plans for checkout in particular, but I think the
> > docs for restore/switch make it clear that it's way too early to start
> > scripting around them:
> >
> >   $ git grep EXPERIMENTAL Documentation/
> >   Documentation/git-restore.txt:THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. THE BEHAVIOR MAY CHANGE.
> >   Documentation/git-switch.txt:THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. THE BEHAVIOR MAY CHANGE.
>
> Would it ever be OK to script around checkout, restore and/or switch
> Porcelain commands?

Users who wish to get their job done will script around porcelain all the time. I would be surprised if even 1% of build scripts use 'git checkout-index' instead of 'git checkout'.

No, this doesn't make it OK. ;)