"Julia Evans" <julia@xxxxxxx> writes: >> Do we expect readers to truly understand what is to "switch to branch" >> without explanation? IOW, I am undecided if the lost "To prepare for >> working on" is a good thing. > > I'm not sure what you mean here: "switch to <branch>" is as far as I can tell > the most widely used term to refer to this operation, in other Git > resources, in Git's own man pages, and in the error output of the > `git checkout` command itself: My assumption was that you are making this a manual to teach what "switch to branch" means to folks who do not know, hence my question. > ("Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches.") > Which readers do you think would be confused by it? Exactly those who are given that message and want to understand what it means.