cm0002@mander.xyz to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 7 days agoWhen you have to checkout the master branchlemmy.worldimagemessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·7 days agoit 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.
minus-squaresik0fewl@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 days agoSwitch and restore came later because checkout was problematic.
minus-squarenightlily@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 days agoHas someone made a „Checkout considered harmful“ blog post yet or do we not do that anymore?
minus-squareSleeplessCityLights@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 days agoJust alias stuff like that, make it coherent.
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 switchand the unsafe withgit restore.Ah, I love coherent software.
Switch and restore came later because checkout was problematic.
Has someone made a „Checkout considered harmful“ blog post yet or do we not do that anymore?
Just alias stuff like that, make it coherent.