On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 04:04:47PM -0400, Avery Pennarun wrote: > How about making "git checkout" default to HEAD if no revision is > supplied? There's precedent for this in, say, git-diff (and I think a > few others). > > Incidentally, "checkout <filename>" was also the way to do a revert > operation in CVS. And the way to switch branches, too, iirc. So git > isn't being too unusual here. That said, the commands were > deliberately renamed in svn because CVS was considered largely insane. The one thing I would worry about is the potential ambiguity if you do something like "git checkout FOOBAR", and FOOBAR was both a branch name as well as a file name. How should it be interpreted? I'd argue the real problem was we conflated two distinct operations: "switching to a new branch", and "reverting a file" to the same name, checkout. Hence the suggestion to add a new command, "git revert-file", where there would be no ambiguity. - Ted -- 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
