On 02/07/2021 12:17, Felipe Contreras wrote:
Andreas Schwab wrote:
On Jul 02 2021, Felipe Contreras wrote:
+ALIAS
+~~~~~
+'git co'
That's `checkout' in hg, bzr, svn and cvs.
I know, and commit is ci in many of them.
The reason why I decided to make checkout co, is that we have already an
alternative for checkout: switch. So unlike all those other VCS, in git
we can have:
co = commit
sw = switch
If I may jump into the discussion.
IMHO it would be good to (partly) follow other vcs, and have
commit = ci
but then keep
switch = sw
And leave co empty.
Reasons for co not used:
1) co would be CheckOut, and not switch. But checkout should be faded
out and replaced by switch/restore
2) co is ambiguous, in the sense that people coming from other vcs
expect checkout,
but people who started on git (especially who started with switch,
instead of checkout) expect commit.
3) if co is not a default, then people can set it according to their own
taste, with less confusion, than if they override a default.
