From: Weijie Yuan <kernel@wyuan.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: use git switch to create branches
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:45:45 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ardqGdjnd7kC1B-E@wyuan.org> (raw)
From: Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>
Git has been promoting "git switch" since git.git commit 328c6cb853d7
(doc: promote "git switch"), and the command is no longer experimental
as of Git 2.51.0.
Suggested-by: Nguyen Duc Thinh <ducthinh100812@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>
---
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
index 4c28a239e8cb..63a5550bd490 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -866,7 +866,7 @@ automatically include the base tree information in your submission by
using the ``--base`` flag. The easiest and most convenient way to use
this option is with topical branches::
- $ git checkout -t -b my-topical-branch master
+ $ git switch -t -c my-topical-branch master
Branch 'my-topical-branch' set up to track local branch 'master'.
Switched to a new branch 'my-topical-branch'
@@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ notice that it will have the ``base-commit:`` trailer at the very
bottom, which provides the reviewer and the CI tools enough information
to properly perform ``git am`` without worrying about conflicts::
- $ git checkout -b patch-review [base-commit-id]
+ $ git switch -c patch-review [base-commit-id]
Switched to a new branch 'patch-review'
$ git am patches.mbox
Applying: First Commit
--
2.55.0.1055.g20c0e7c0fb.dirty
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