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Not for me.

Those confusing switches are already ingrained in my memory (or hidden away behind aliases) and now I find it more confusing that git is recommending new and different commands to do things that I've been doing a fixed way for years.

`git restore <file>` instead of `git checkout -- <file>`is another one.

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well git checkout basically is confusing because it does two things at once.

git restore and git switch basically tries to seperate the functionality.

i.e. from: "git-checkout - Switch branches or restore working tree files"

to

- "git-switch - Switch branches"

- "git-restore - Restore working tree files"

tbf I found it really stupid from the beginning that it tries two things at once.

Well, I guess the good thing here is that they're not going to remove the old checkout behaviour. And these new commands are much easier to use and understand for a beginner.

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