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Maybe it is a UNIX/non-UNIX thing...

I have been using UNIX-type operating systems almost exclusively for the whole of my professional life so have zero appreciation for the troubles people have when approaching UNIX tools from a Windows (or whatever) mindset.

Git (and the whole toolchain and OS for that matter) is much more about DWIS than DWIM and that does not click for a lot of people.

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No, it's not about mindset or command-line unix culture. It's about interface design. The command line interface.

All of the established unix commands do a particular conceptual thing well. "sort" always sorts. Its options affect how it sorts.

But git ... "git checkout" can switch the working branch. "git checkout" can rollback code ... depending on the specified options.

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