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New in Git: switch and restore

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Re: New in Git: switch and restore

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Post by Vinnl »

It's not really new anymore, but still way underused, so it could certainly do with more attention. Git's UI has become better, but they can't really remove the old UI and tutorials using those, so people keep sticking to that.

Re: New in Git: switch and restore

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Post by bicolao »

You don't need -- as much in the "git restore" example. With git checkout it may be necessary to separate the branch and the paths with "--" but since "git restore" does not take a branch (except with -s), doing this is totally fine

    git restore test.txt

Re: New in Git: switch and restore

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Post by easygenes »

Vinnl wrote: post #3

It's not really new anymore, but still way underused, so it could certainly do with more attention. Git's UI has become better, but they can't really remove the old UI and tutorials using those, so people keep sticking to that.

What would top recommendations be for tutorials using the newest UI?

Re: New in Git: switch and restore

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Post by pcl »

Vinnl wrote: post #3

It's not really new anymore, but still way underused, so it could certainly do with more attention. Git's UI has become better, but they can't really remove the old UI and tutorials using those, so people keep sticking to that.

It’d be interesting to add a config that disables the cruft for interactive terminals. I wonder if that could be a pathway towards deprecation.

Re: New in Git: switch and restore

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Post by golemiprague »

I wish git had some tree transversal related commands instead of all the crypto commands that nobody understand what they are doing without long tutorials. Got a feeling that this is a case where going down to the metal is better than all the abstractions.
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