From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: "Elijah Newren" <newren@gmail.com>,
"Gábor Farkas" <gabor.farkas@gmail.com>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git switch/restore, still experimental?
Date: Thu, 06 May 2021 06:00:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6093cc63a4e81_325720840@natae.notmuch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq35v01ua3.fsf@gitster.g>
Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I mean, I see why. You don't want a typo of "master" as "maaster" to
> > create a new "maaster" branch, so really that's out. But it really
> > should be:
> >
> > # -n or -N for --new / --new --force (the latter just in case of a
> > # race, and just for consistency)
> > git switch -n doesnotexist
>
> I do not see why --new is better than --create;
I do. Different languages equal different minds.
New in this context is an adjetive: it is a modifier of a noun, in this
case, a branch.
Create is a verb; it's an action.
Linguistically speaking they could not be more different.
You don't do two verbs at a time. Either you sleep, or you eat, but you
don't do both. Similarly you don't switch and create. Doesn't make
sense.
If you use natural language:
1. Git, switch to a new branch
2. Git, switch, create, branch
One of these simply flows, the other is complete gibberish. I think
anyone familiar with English can identify which is which.
Cheers.
--
Felipe Contreras
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-06 11:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-04 10:32 git switch/restore, still experimental? Gábor Farkas
2021-05-04 19:54 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-05 3:46 ` Elijah Newren
2021-05-05 4:01 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-05-05 11:09 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-05 17:46 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-05 19:26 ` Sergey Organov
2021-05-05 19:48 ` Sergey Organov
2021-05-06 1:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-06 15:19 ` Sergey Organov
2021-05-06 10:05 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-06 14:29 ` Sergey Organov
2021-05-06 2:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-06 10:02 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-10 11:04 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-10 18:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-06 11:00 ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2021-05-06 15:26 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-06 21:55 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-10 10:58 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-05-11 7:15 ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-05 14:18 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-05-05 14:26 ` Randall S. Becker
2021-05-06 1:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-05 17:52 ` Felipe Contreras
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