There's more! Well, it's more a bash thing than a cd thing.. in bash the variable $_ refers to the last argument to the previous command. So you can do the following:

> mkdir -p my/nested/dir
> cd $_
> pwd
/home/user/my/nested/dir

It's handy for a whole host of things, like piping/touching then opening a file, chown then chmod, etc.

There's also pushd and popd so that you can pushd into one directory, move around as much as you want and then go back to before the pushd with popd

Oh lol, I was just trying to poke fun, sorry if it came across as accusatory. 😎👍

Checkout was one of those commands that I joking would call Turing complete because of how much you can do with it (I haven't actually tried to see if it is, but am fully prepared for someone to be nerd sniped and tell me it actually is). I think they're mostly the same, but switch and restore were added as more straightforward versions of checkout and reset.

Well one starts with an s, the other with a c... :P

They changed the command to clarify what it does, checkout was / is used for switching branches as well as branch creation but has connotations of doing some locking in the repo from older vcs software.... I think. the new commands are switch and branch. check the docs

Idk what the deal is with switch, I thought it wasn't supposed to be creating branches but right in the docs there's a flag for it???

Im the kind of user that just deletes .git and starts over when I f up the repo, so take my git advice with a tablespoon of salt.