Re: [PATCH] cmd_reset: don't trash uncommitted changes unless told to

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Johannes Sixt wrote:

Johannes Schindelin schrieb:

quoted

Incidentally, a friend just told me that "checkout" is everything but 
intuitive, and he would have preferred "git branch switch <branch>", but 
then settled for my proposed "git branch --switch <branch>", which I did 
not have time to implement yet, unfortunately.

$ git config alias.switch checkout
$ git switch topic

Hm? Notice that the command even reports back:

Switched to branch "topic"
^^^^^^^^

Nice.  And now my friend says "why does this braindamaged Git not have 
that command by _default_?  Hmm?  It is _just as braindamaged_ as CVS!"

And I would not have anything reasonable for my defense.

Because Git _should_ have an intuitive command to switch branches by 
default.  "git checkout" just does not fly, especially given that it can 
be used to revert single files (which "git revert" should know how to, but 
does not, see 
http://mid.gmane.org/7vlk8wshii.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org).

I _do_ see a cause of confusion here, _even_ if I know Git pretty well.

Ciao,
Dscho