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 beg

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).