Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Sergey Organov wrote:
>> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> > Sergey Organov wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> >> 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"?
>
> 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.
>
> In my mind I'm not doing two operations, it's one operation with a
> modifier:
>
> git switch --new branch
>
> --new is an adverb, not an operation.
Well, let's see:
git walk "First Avenue"
git walk parkway
then, suddenly:
git walk --new road
Just an adverb, a modifier. As if no any additional operations were
actually needed. Minecraft: who cares? Just saying.
Thanks,
--
Sergey Organov
