From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:46:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add a planning document for the next CLI revamp
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810311745030.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20081031003154.GA5745@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Jeff King wrote:

> 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