On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:31 AM Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 7:03 AM Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > > Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclo...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > The good old "git checkout" command is still here and will be until > > > all (or most of users) are sick of it. > > > > Two comments on the goal (the implementation looked reasonable > > assuming the reader agrees with the gaol). > > > > At least to me, the verb "switch" needs two things to switch > > between, i.e. "switch A and B", unless it is "switch to X". > > Either "switch-to-branch" or simply "switch-to", perhaps? > > > > As I already hinted in my response to Stefan (?) about > > checkout-from-tree vs checkout-from-index, a command with multiple > > modes of operation is not confusing to people with the right mental > > model, and I suspect that having two separate commands for "checking > > out a branch" and "checking out paths" that is done by this step > > would help users to form the right mental model. > > Since the other one is already "checkout-files", maybe this one could > just be "checkout-branch".
I dislike the checkout-* names, as we already have checkout-index as plumbing, so it would be confusing as to which checkout-* command should be used when and why as it seems the co-index moves content *from index* to the working tree, but the co-files moves content *to files*, whereas checkout-branch is neither 'moving' to or from a branch but rather 'switching' to that branch.
