Re: git switch/restore, still experimental?

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On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 11:47 PM Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, May 4, 2021 at 3:36 AM Gábor Farkas <gabor.farkas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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.".
> >
> > considering that they were released two years ago, could the
> > experimental-warning be removed now?
>
> 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.

As a point of interest, Duy introduced multiple worktree support
(which eventually became git-worktree) in late 2014, and it's still
marked as experimental in the documentation (though not in loud
uppercase).



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