On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 9:11 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Benji Fisher <benji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I was under the impression that the new "git switch" and "git restore" > > commands were recommended in most cases instead of "git checkout". > > These two were added so that eventually we have something we can > recommend to new users, but as a pair of experimental commands, we > reserve the rights to update their UI in backward incompatible ways > (meaning: those who use them may need to retrain their fingers and > update their scripts if they used them---not that using these > Porcelain commands in scripts is a good idea to begin with). > > So your justification could be > > We want to evantually be able to recommend restore/switch to new > users, and want to take advantage of every opportunity to polish > them. > > Because this document is not exactly for totally new users, and > the readers are expected to be knowledgeable enough and highly > motivated in improving git, let's have them use these > experimental commands and report newbie-issues they found using > them, so that we can gain more experience and chances to polish > the command and eventually make them recommendable to new users. > > Note that the "WHY?" in my response was not "I see no reason to do > this", but "You need to say why you think this is a good idea here > in the proposed commit log message". Without your version of > reasoning, my conclusion was "I do not see a point", but with a > justification like this (there could be others---it is contributor's > job to explain why a proposed change is a good idea, not mine), I > can understand the reasoning why this change may be a good one. For what it's worth, when I wrote this doc I was new enough to hacking Git that I did not know about the new experimental commands ;) or else I would have used them. I am not opposed to pointing them out in this doc as part of general evangelism towards a nice UX improvement (and that could be good justification for the commit message, if you agree, Benji). - Emily
