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git switch --detach

• frizlab 2y ago
  or the shorter `git switch -d`
  • lostmsu 2y ago
    Not to be confused with `git switch -D`, a shorthand for `git switch --delete`
    • frizlab 2y ago
      Are you being sarcastic? I can’t find the --delete option in git-switch man page.
      • lostmsu 2y ago
        I am. The fact that you had to look is the point.
        • frizlab 2y ago
          I don’t see the point though. That it’s impossible to know all of git’s options by heart? I mean that’s obvious and true of most software (https://xkcd.com/1168/ https://xkcd.com/1168/ though this one is not actually hard).
          • kazinator 2y ago
            I do see a point though. Ostensibly, sure, it's hard to be so confident that a program does not have a certain feature that you can deny it without looking. But think about this case. Would it make sense for git switch to have a delete option? Of course not. But you can't be sure, because, git. The feeling is that they would merge something like that.
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• kazinator 2y ago
  But "git switch --detach master" leaves you detached. So switch is just a dumber checkout that has to be told when to detach or not instead of inferring it from the kind of revision.
  • remram 2y ago
    That's usually a good thing, setting your HEAD to a symbolic ref or a commit are very different operations. Having a switch makes sense and probably catches beginner errors rather than letting them know afterwards. I don't feel like typing 'git s -d <branch>' has slowed me down in practice but you're technically right of course (or I would add a 'd="switch -d'"' alias).