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When you have to checkout the master branch
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it has always bothered me that checkout is overloaded: it can switch branches or discard pending changes in an unrecoverable way.
so, PSA, you can replicate the safe part of checkout with
git switchand the unsafe withgit restore.Ah, I love coherent software.
Switch and restore came later because checkout was problematic.
Just alias stuff like that, make it coherent.