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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] branch doc: consistently promote 'switch'
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2026 13:58:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwlqt4lwj.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)

When 328c6cb853 (doc: promote "git switch", 2019-03-29) updated an
example in git-branch documentation, it made an inconsistent change
to turn "git checkout my2.6.14" command in an example into "git
switch my2.6.14", without updating a comment that talks about a
shorthand to create and checkout the newly created branch at the
same time, which still talked about "checkout -b <new> <start>".

Update the latter to talk about "git switch -c" for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---

 * An alternative would be to list both "git checkout -b" and "git
   switch -c", as "git checkout" is not going away (for the purpose
   of *replacing* checkout, the switch/restore were a failed
   experiment, even though they gained enough users to stay).

 Documentation/git-branch.adoc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git c/Documentation/git-branch.adoc w/Documentation/git-branch.adoc
index bfdf459329..a803c24858 100644
--- c/Documentation/git-branch.adoc
+++ w/Documentation/git-branch.adoc
@@ -406,17 +406,17 @@ Start development from a known tag::
 ------------
 $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.6 my2.6
 $ cd my2.6
 $ git branch my2.6.14 v2.6.14   <1>
 $ git switch my2.6.14
 ------------
 +
 <1> This step and the next one could be combined into a single step with
-    "checkout -b my2.6.14 v2.6.14".
+    "git switch -c my2.6.14 v2.6.14".
 
 Delete an unneeded branch::
 +
 ------------
 $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/.../git.git my.git
 $ cd my.git
 $ git branch -d -r origin/todo origin/html origin/man   <1>
 $ git branch -D test                                    <2>

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