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Re: [BUG] git checkout <branch> allowed with uncommitted changes

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AarQon <arqon@gmx.com>
Date
Oct 16, 2011, 18:25 UTC
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Victor Engmark <victor.engmark <at> terreactive.ch> writes:
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> Very good point. How about by default just running `git status` after a
> successful checkout, and only printing the result if there are any
> changes? That way:
> 1) If no changes are pending, nothing is displayed.
> 2) The user sees a *familiar* style output if anything changed.
> 3) If there's an alias for "status", it would be used.

I'm sold on this. Better documentation for checkout wouldn't hurt regardless, and I'm still planning on that when I get a chance; but better *behavior* is a clear win either way. Adding half a page of text to the docs explaining what each status char means is a hugely-inferior "solution" to simply not having an aberrant status-ish output in the first place.

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