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Tue, 3 Nov 2026 14:46:24 -0500 (EST) From: Junio C Hamano To: Johannes Welsch Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] git branch: add -s/--switch to create and switch to a new branch In-Reply-To: (Johannes Welsch's message of "Tue, 3 Nov 2026 16:34:09 +0100") References: Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:46:23 -0800 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Johannes Welsch writes: > I'd like to propose adding a -s (--switch) option to `git branch`. > > It makes sense semantically to create a branch and to also switch to it. Why is "git checkout -b [