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Can we communally deprecate git checkout?
Can we communally deprecate git checkout?
I use it on nearly all of my programming projects, have read the entirety of Pro Git, and every lab or company I have worked at has held its codebase on GitHub, with the exception of the National Ignition Facility. Just stop teaching junior developers to use checkout because chances are it will be entombed in their muscle memory for a long while after. If you are a person who contributes to Stack Overflow (thank you, by the way) or gives advice to junior developers (also thank you), please stop teaching them to use git checkout!
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