On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 02:24:58PM +0400, Matthias Kestenholz wrote:
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> On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 11:16 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > Incidentally, a friend just told me that "checkout" is everything but
> > intuitive, and he would have preferred "git branch switch <branch>", but
> > then settled for my proposed "git branch --switch <branch>", which I did
> > not have time to implement yet, unfortunately.
> 
> But why? I don't want to 'branch', I want to 'checkout' another branch,
> which incidentally matches the git command I need to use to achieve
> that.

Because 'checkout' in other SCMs like CVS or SVN means 'get latest data from
repo', i.e. it acts like 'pull' or 'fetch' in git.
And 'branch' means branch manipulation: creating, deleting, switching...

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Best regards,
		Anton
mailto:agladkov@parallels.com
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