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> Not only is it more semantic, it reduces the complexity of ‘git checkout’ which is a common complaint.

It doesn’t since the feature can’t be removed from git checkout for BC reasons.

It does, because it sounded like he was concerned with the complexity of explaining the broadness of uses for git checkout.

Now we can treat git restore like it is a separate thing.

This is a better way to say it and what a I meant thanks.

I don't see why it couldn't be removed from a future release after a period of deprecation.

Because there’s a million aliases out there which alias « git checkout —- . » to something sensible and there is no real justification for breaking them: checkout can trivially delegate to restore.

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