Re: PATCH: improve git switch documentation

Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] writes:

Sergey Organov wrote:

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Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] writes:

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Sergey Organov wrote:

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Felipe Contreras [off-list ref] writes:

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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.

Compound operations soon become basic operations in the mind of an
expert.

Lifting your feet, and then landing your feet might be basic operations
when you are 1 yo, but soon enough they become "walking".

[caveat: please don't take the rest of this post too seriously]

Yeah, using another name for a compound is yet another option indeed.
"git cretching"?

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Similarly checking out a commit and then cherry-picking a sequence of
commits while resolving conflicts becomes "rebasing".

This is very questionable example. Please don't let me even start on
this.

You don't need to validate the concept, but chunking is an established
concept in cognitive pshychology [1]. It's how humans learn (and
possibly machines too).

The urdge to dive into the muddy waters of psychology to support your
example, where pure logic should probably have sufficed, makes the
example only even more suspect.

Thanks,
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Sergey Organov