Comment by mrshu

Not trying to defend the choice of `git checkout` over `git switch` (and `git restore`) but they were introduced in v2.23 of Git [0], which was released about 5 years ago [1]. If you take a look at their help pages, they still include a warning that says

> THIS COMMAND IS EXPERIMENTAL. THE BEHAVIOR MAY CHANGE.

Granted, it has been in there for basically as long as the command(s) existed [2] and after 5 years perhaps it might be time to no longer call it experimental.

Still, it does seem like `git checkout` might be a bit more backwards compatible (and also reflective of the time when this website was originally created).

[0] https://github.com/git/git/blob/757161efcca150a9a96b312d9e78...

[1] https://github.com/git/git/releases/tag/v2.23.0

[2] https://github.com/git/git/commit/4e43b7ff1ea4b6f16b93a432b6...