What purpose does the update A switch serve other
than to switch you back to the HEAD of trunk after creating a branch? With the
exception of that narrow use case it seems to be dangerous and confusing. It
also seems to be redundant as there is a more general way of switching branches
and
Rod Macpherson writes:
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What purpose does the update -A switch serve other than to switch you
back to the HEAD of trunk after creating a branch?
It also
It [Update -A] also reverts any local -k options back to the
repository defaults.
Good thing to know given it quietly does that in addition to merging
HEAD of trunk with your workspace.
I don't see what's dangerous or confusing about it, it's a quick way
to
throw away any local
