Re: PATCH: improve git switch documentation

Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] writes:

Sergey Organov wrote:

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Creating (a branch) is fundamentally different operation than switching
to (a branch), and that's why the former doesn't fit into "git switch".

Not in my mind. Instead of switching to an existing branch, I'm switching
to a new branch, which is easily understood by
`git switch --new branch`.

To me:

"create a new branch" is basic operation.

"switch to another branch" is basic operation.

"create a new branch and then switch to it" is compound operation.

The latter could be implemented as either new-then-switch or
switch-to-new indeed, but the "new" part is the first action to be made,
so

  git new branch <branch-name>

that switches to the <branch-name> by default still sounds more logical
to me than current:

  git switch -c <branch-name>

Thanks,
-- 
Sergey Organov