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When you have to checkout the master branch (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@mander.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (2 children)

it has always bothered me that checkout is overloaded: it can switch branches or discard pending changes in an unrecoverable way.

so, PSA, you can replicate the safe part of checkout with git switch and the unsafe with git restore.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 6 days ago

I agree, I wonder why they decided to design it that way in the first place.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ah, I love coherent software.

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Switch and restore came later because checkout was problematic.

[–] nightlily@leminal.space 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Has someone made a „Checkout considered harmful“ blog post yet or do we not do that anymore?

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

E we used to always stash before checkouts to try and find things in a branch

[–] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

Just alias stuff like that, make it coherent.