{"thread":{"id":"7808","subject":"[PATCH] Reverse the order of -b and --track in the man page.","startedAt":"2007-04-23T23:56:45Z","lastAt":"2007-04-23T23:56:45Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Brian Gernhardt"],"isPatch":true,"patchVersion":1,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"40261","messageId":"20070423235645.GA197@Hermes.local","threadId":"7808","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[PATCH] Reverse the order of -b and --track in the man page.","fromName":"Brian Gernhardt","fromEmail":"benji@silverinsanity.com","sentAt":"2007-04-23T23:56:45Z","receivedAt":"2007-04-23T23:56:45Z","isPatch":true,"sender":{"key":"benji@silverinsanity.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/e06c101dbc25c68114d859b4a9ec7cf8a2c52fd2b0270ef0eac0e2e63ff22311?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"Using \"-b --track newbranch oldbranch\" gives the error:\n\n  git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching\n  branches/forcing\n\nHowever, \"--track -b ...\" works just fine.\n\nSigned-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>\n---\n Documentation/git-checkout.txt |    2 +-\n 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)\n\ndiff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt\nindex 4f2e847..918d8ee 100644\n--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt\n+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt\n@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-checkout - Checkout and switch to a branch\n SYNOPSIS\n --------\n [verse]\n-'git-checkout' [-q] [-f] [-b [--track | --no-track] <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>]\n+'git-checkout' [-q] [-f] [[--track | --no-track] -b <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>]\n 'git-checkout' [<tree-ish>] <paths>...\n \n DESCRIPTION\n-- \n1.5.2.rc0.1.g2cc31\n"}]}