Re: [PATCH/RFC v2 0/7] Introduce new commands switch-branch and checkout-files

[Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 5:53 PM Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> v2 is just a bit better to look at than v1. This is by no means final.
> If you think the command name is bad, the default behavior should
> change, or something else, speak up. It's still very "RFC".
>
> v2 breaks down the giant patch in v1 and starts adding some changes in
> these new commands:
>
> - restore-paths is renamed to checkout-paths. I wrote I didn't like
>   "checkout" because of completion conflict. But who am I kidding,
>   I'll use aliases anyway. "-files" instead of "-paths" because we
>   already have ls-files.
> - both commands will not accept no arguments. There is no "git
>   checkout" equivalent.
> - ambiguation rules are now aware that "switch-branch" for example
>   can't take pathspec...

Another thing. Since we start with a clean slate, should we do
something about detached HEAD in this switch-branch command (or
whatever its name will be)?

This is usually a confusing concept to new users and I've seen some
users have a hard time getting out of it. I'm too comfortable with
detached HEAD to see this from new user's perspective and a better way
to deal with it.
-- 
Duy