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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next CLI revamp

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Oct 31, 2008, 16:46 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0810311745030.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
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<20081031003154.GA5745@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Hi,
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Jeff King wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:22:00PM -0700, Sam Vilain wrote:
> 
> > +  * 'git branch --switch' : alternative to checkout
> 
> Blech. I think switching branches is the one thing that checkout does 
> unconfusedly. And this is much more typing. Not to mention that So I 
> would rather see "git switch" if checkout is somehow unpalatable.

You know, I asked for this because a _user_ told me "Guess how long it took me to find out how to check out a branch!".

I think if you are not confused by CVS/SVN, the name "checkout" is utterly unintuitive.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 6 of 25 in “Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next CLI revamp”
  1. Jeff KingOct 31, 2008
  2. Sam VilainOct 31, 2008
  3. Pierre HabouzitOct 31, 2008
  4. Jeff KingNov 2, 2008
  5. Theodore TsoNov 2, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinOct 31, 2008
  7. Jeff KingNov 2, 2008
  8. Jeff KingNov 2, 2008
  9. Junio C HamanoNov 2, 2008
  10. Sam VilainNov 3, 2008
  11. Jakub NarebskiNov 3, 2008
  12. Sverre RabbelierNov 3, 2008
  13. Dmitry PotapovNov 4, 2008
  14. Sam VilainNov 4, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2008
  16. Jeff KingNov 5, 2008
  17. Junio C HamanoNov 5, 2008
  18. Dmitry PotapovNov 5, 2008
  19. Jeff KingNov 3, 2008
  20. Jeff KingNov 3, 2008
  21. Pierre HabouzitNov 3, 2008
  22. Junio C HamanoNov 3, 2008
  23. Pierre HabouzitNov 4, 2008
  24. Junio C HamanoNov 4, 2008
  25. Jeff KingNov 4, 2008

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