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Comment by alkonaut

> with git checkout you can create and switch to the new branch in one command using the -b flag: git checkout -b new_branch

> You can do the same with the new one, but the flag is -c: git switch -c new_branch

It's like they had a design meeting where they discussed this and said "so I propose switch -b newbranch to create and switch to a new branch" and the objection was "nah that would make it consistent with checkout, which is against the project policy"

parent alkonaut 5 years ago

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