On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 02:24:58PM +0400, Matthias Kestenholz wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 11:16 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > Incidentally, a friend just told me that "checkout" is everything but > > intuitive, and he would have preferred "git branch switch <branch>", but > > then settled for my proposed "git branch --switch <branch>", which I did > > not have time to implement yet, unfortunately. > > But why? I don't want to 'branch', I want to 'checkout' another branch, > which incidentally matches the git command I need to use to achieve > that. Because 'checkout' in other SCMs like CVS or SVN means 'get latest data from repo', i.e. it acts like 'pull' or 'fetch' in git. And 'branch' means branch manipulation: creating, deleting, switching... -- Best regards, Anton mailto:agladkov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
