On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 1:25 PM Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com> wrote:
> I find, however, that the top-level git-switch "DESCRIPTION" section,
> which talks about "switching branches" doesn't actually ever explain
> what it means to "switch" to a branch. Even adding a simple sentence
> stating that "switching to a branch means that a newly-created commit
> will be a direct child of the current head of the branch, and that the
> branch will be updated to point at the new commit" would help cement
> the meaning of branch switching in the reader's mind (rather than
> assuming the reader understands that implicitly).

Thanks. How about this? I skipped the "update branch to point to the
new commit" because that sounds like something you should learn from
git-commit and hopefully the word "commit" would be enough to recall
that knowledge (or direct the user to git-commit.txt). I notice
git-commit.txt does not say anything about branch update business
though. Maybe some more updates there...

DESCRIPTION
-----------
Switch to a specified branch. The working three and the index are also
updated to match the branch. All new commits will be added to the tip
of this branch.

Optionally a new branch could be created with either `-c` or `-C`, or
detach the working tree from any branch with `--detach`, along with
switching.


-- 
Duy

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