Re: git switch/restore, still experimental?

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On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 3:36 AM Gábor Farkas <gabor.farkas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> the "git switch" and "git restore" commands were released two years
> ago, but the manpage still says "THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. THE
> BEHAVIOR MAY CHANGE.".
>
> i'd love to use them, but this warning gives me pause, perhaps i
> should wait until it stops being experimental, i worry that it might
> change in behavior unexpectedly and cause problems for me.
>
> considering that they were released two years ago, could the
> experimental-warning be removed now?
>
> thanks,
> gabor

This probably makes sense.  The author of switch and restore isn't
involved in the git project anymore.  He decided to work on other
things, which was and is a big loss for us.  I think others (myself
included) didn't know all the things that might have been in Duy's
head that he wanted to verify were working well before marking this as
good, but these two commands have generally been very well received
and it has been a few years.  Personally, I'm not aware of anything
that we'd need or want to change with these commands.

That said, we're only a few weeks from -rc0, and I'd rather remove the
experimental label early in a release cycle, so maybe this would be a
good thing to do after the June git-2.32 release.  That'd give plenty
of time for others to chime in with anything they might be aware of
that they want or need fixed.

Thanks for flagging this.

Elijah




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