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[180.214.232.75]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u7sm10921294pgl.30.2021.07.10.03.37.26 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 10 Jul 2021 03:37:27 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: PATCH: improve git switch documentation To: Sergey Organov , Martin Cc: Felipe Contreras , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org References: <7870a0ad-8fa1-9dbd-1978-1f44ec6970c5@mfriebe.de> <87wnqaclz8.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> <60e5f3981de5f_301437208bc@natae.notmuch> <87bl7d3l8r.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> <60e61bbd7a37d_3030aa2081a@natae.notmuch> <877di13hhe.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> <60e67389a4adc_306ac1208fd@natae.notmuch> <4057b3ac-a77c-0d5f-d3f4-ad781754aae4@mfriebe.de> <60e736e72da68_30939020850@natae.notmuch> <155308af-42ad-b044-fb37-676251a9b7e1@mfriebe.de> <60e762243aab1_30a7b02089@natae.notmuch> <2b85a7eb-d0be-65e7-ecbb-1750abf53e53@mfriebe.de> <60e79c31aaa72_30b8a4208c1@natae.notmuch> <65362688-b65b-661c-20c1-94d7dc2118c7@mfriebe.de> <60e874e1c6845_215320861@natae.notmuch> <87im1ieaba.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> From: Bagas Sanjaya Message-ID: <3dbe1f6f-1e9d-3bcc-a7b1-4d9cde56bcde@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2021 17:37:24 +0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87im1ieaba.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 10/07/21 17.24, Sergey Organov wrote: > I believe that's because "git switch" tries to do too much. "git switch" > should rather switch between existing branches, and do nothing else. As > I said once in this discussion already: trouble writing good > documentation is often indication of some flaws in the design. > > Creating (a branch) is fundamentally different operation than switching > to (a branch), and that's why the former doesn't fit into "git switch". > So I prefer your suggestion. Also make `git switch` also switches tags or random commits (like `git checkout ` and `git checkout `). -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara