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Why is git flow function check deprecated? What should I use instead?

I run git

version 2.3.6

and git flow

version 1.8.0

, and when I run commands like this git flow feature checkout <branch>

, I get the message:

The command 'git flow feature checkout/co' will be deprecated per version 2.0.0

Does anyone know why this would be deprecated and / or what I should be using instead?

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Depending on the version number given in your question (1.8.0), you link to https://github.com/petervanderdoes/gitflow (as opposed to https://github.com/nvie/gitflow , the latest release of which is on the moment of writing this answer is 0.4.1). After cloning this repo and checking its log by running

git log --grep=feature --grep=deprecated --all-match

I found one relevant commit that doesn't motivate erasure git flow feature checkout

.



However, issue # 128 in the GitHub repo issue tracking log contains a discussion about planned deprecation git flow feature checkout

. Here is the relevant portion of the maintainer's comment:

My thoughts

Checkout

  • With bash / zsh termination, this command seems irrelevant, but if you don't use termination it can be useful.
  • I propose to drop this command in a future version and add a warning for v1.8.0 that the command will be removed in a future version (2.0?)
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