On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 3:16 AM Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclo...@gmail.com> writes: > > > 'git switch-branch' > > > > - implicit detaching is rejected. If you need to detach, you need to > > give --detach. Or stick to 'git checkout'. > > OK. Is "auto-vivify the named branch based on a remote-tracking" > also rejected, as it is a confusing behaviour that is a too subtle > and implicit, just like the detaching head is, and require --guess > or sticking to 'git checkout'? I think it should.
This touches the "remote" concept which I think is another confusing thing for new people (your "master" is not the same as the server's "master", aka origin/master) and perhaps this dwim thing helps. Frankly I don't do dwim much so I don't know if it's that often used. > > - -b/-B is renamed to -c/-C with long option names > > I did not expect that these two are the only options that would be > out of place with the command name split, but presumably you looked > at all options for both of the two new commands to see if they made > sense in the new context? Yeah (at least the description in struct option[] array) -- Duy
