Re: changing the experimental 'git switch'
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2021-10-21 23:03:39
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [off-list ref] 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.