splitting git commits
splitting git commits
Posted Feb 12, 2026 17:47 UTC (Thu) by josh (subscriber, #17465)In reply to: splitting git commits by alx.manpages
Parent article: Evolving Git for the next decade
> These days, 'git switch -c letstrythatagain' seems to be preferred, I think.
I genuinely find that confusing. `git checkout branchname` makes sense to me as the mechanism for "I want to check out this branch", and adding an option to create the branch makes sense to me as well. I could imagine wanting to change the option from `-b` to `-c`, but I personally feel like "switch" is not any clearer than "checkout".