From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Subject: Re: changing the experimental 'git switch'
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 16:03:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq7de6htfg.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <211021.86wnm6l1ip.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com> ("Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason"'s message of "Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:45:44 +0200")
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
> | Switch with --merge | git switch -m branch | git switch --merge branch |
> | Create | git switch -c new | git switch -n new |
> | Create from existing | N/A | git switch -c new [<old>] |
I agree that adding a way to "clone", which is missing from
"checkout/switch/branch", is a good idea. I do not necessarily
think it is a good idea to say "-n" is "new" or "-c" is not "create"
but is "clone/copy". As you said yourself in a later paragraph,
"-n" sometimes is "--dry-run", and as we can see here "-c" in the
context of a command that can create and clone (with two verbs
behaving differently) is ambiguous.
Starting with a spelled out --copy vs --create without muddying the
water with -n may be a sensible way forward.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-21 23:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-21 11:55 Notes from the Git Contributors' Summit 2021, virtual, Oct 19/20 Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-21 11:55 ` [Summit topic] Crazy (and not so crazy) ideas Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-21 12:30 ` Son Luong Ngoc
2021-10-26 20:14 ` scripting speedups [was: [Summit topic] Crazy (and not so crazy) ideas] Eric Wong
2021-10-30 19:58 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-03 9:24 ` test suite speedups via some not-so-crazy ideas (was: scripting speedups[...]) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-03 22:12 ` test suite speedups via some not-so-crazy ideas Junio C Hamano
2021-11-02 13:52 ` scripting speedups [was: [Summit topic] Crazy (and not so crazy) ideas] Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-21 11:55 ` [Summit topic] SHA-256 Updates Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-21 11:56 ` [Summit topic] Server-side merge/rebase: needs and wants? Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-22 3:06 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-10-22 10:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-23 20:52 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-08 18:21 ` Taylor Blau
2021-11-09 2:15 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-11-30 10:06 ` Christian Couder
2021-10-21 11:56 ` [Summit topic] Submodules and how to make them worth using Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-21 11:56 ` [Summit topic] Sparse checkout behavior and plans Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-21 11:56 ` [Summit topic] The state of getting a reftable backend working in git.git Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-25 19:00 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2021-10-25 22:09 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-10-26 8:12 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2021-10-28 14:17 ` Philip Oakley
2021-10-26 15:51 ` Philip Oakley
2021-10-21 11:56 ` [Summit topic] Documentation (translations, FAQ updates, new user-focused, general improvements, etc.) Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-22 14:20 ` Jean-Noël Avila
2021-10-22 14:31 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-10-27 7:02 ` Jean-Noël Avila
2021-10-27 8:50 ` Jeff King
2021-10-21 11:56 ` [Summit topic] Increasing diversity & inclusion (transition to `main`, etc) Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-21 12:55 ` Son Luong Ngoc
2021-10-22 10:02 ` vale check, was " Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-22 10:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-21 11:57 ` [Summit topic] Improving Git UX Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-21 16:45 ` changing the experimental 'git switch' (was: [Summit topic] Improving Git UX) Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-10-21 23:03 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-10-22 3:33 ` Bagas Sanjaya
2021-10-22 14:04 ` martin
2021-10-22 14:24 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-10-22 15:30 ` martin
2021-10-23 8:27 ` changing the experimental 'git switch' Sergey Organov
2021-10-22 21:54 ` Sergey Organov
2021-10-24 6:54 ` changing the experimental 'git switch' (was: [Summit topic] Improving Git UX) Martin
2021-10-24 20:27 ` changing the experimental 'git switch' Junio C Hamano
2021-10-25 12:48 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-10-25 17:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-10-25 16:44 ` Sergey Organov
2021-10-25 22:23 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-10-27 18:54 ` Sergey Organov
2021-10-21 11:57 ` [Summit topic] Improving reviewer quality of life (patchwork, subsystem lists?, etc) Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-21 13:41 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2021-10-22 22:06 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-10-22 8:02 ` Missing notes, was Re: Notes from the Git Contributors' Summit 2021, virtual, Oct 19/20 Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-22 8:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-22 8:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-22 9:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-22 9:44 ` Let's have public Git chalk talks, " Johannes Schindelin
2021-10-25 12:58 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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