Breaking Down the Monolith of `git checkout` in Git 2.23

Great overview of the changes in Git 2.23, care of Taylor Blau on the GitHub.com blog:

Git 2.23 brings a new pair of experimental commands to the suite of existing ones: git switchand git restore. These two are meant to eventually provide a better interface for the well-knowngit checkout. The new commands intend to each have a clear separation, neatly divvying up what the many responsibilities of git checkout, as we’ll show below.

The perennially overloaded git checkout command is a notable piece of difficult CLI in an already challenging suite. I can easily imagine myself tripping over the old flags, though, as in the comparable git checkout -b and git switch -c commands for immediately creating and checking out a branch. Because git checkout is used in so many different contexts, it’s its flags and argument patterns that are most memorable to those who use Git every day.