Switch branches in git with... `git switch`

It's experimental. It's intuitive. It's in the newest version of git, version 2.23.0. It is:

git switch my-branch

And, with every git command there are many ways to use the command with many flags:

You might want to create a branch and switch to it:

git switch -c new-branch

You might want to switch to a new version of a local branch that tracks a remote branch:

git switch -t origin/remote-branch

You can throw away unstaged changes with switching by using -f.

git switch -f other-branch

I feel that if I were learning git from scratch today, this would be much easier to learn, there's just so much going on with checkout.

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