From: Matthieu Moy Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 12:43:53 GMT Subject: [PATCH v2] git-checkout.txt: clarify that applies when no path is given. Message-ID: <1239108233-20924-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> In-Reply-To: <1239099643-11959-1-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> Otherwise, the sentence "Defaults to HEAD." can be mis-read to mean that "git checkout -- hello.c" checks-out from HEAD. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy --- Sorry, patch v1 was introducing a spurious newline, which broke asciidoc syntax. This fixes it, but Junio, if you already applied v1, just remove the empty line after :: and before +. Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 8 ++++++-- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 0b5485b..223ea9c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -126,9 +126,13 @@ the conflicted merge in the specified paths. :: Name for the new branch. +:: + Tree to checkout from (when paths are given). If not specified, + the index will be used. + :: - Branch to checkout; may be any object ID that resolves to a - commit. Defaults to HEAD. + Branch to checkout (when no paths are given); may be any object + ID that resolves to a commit. Defaults to HEAD. + When this parameter names a non-branch (but still a valid commit object), your HEAD becomes 'detached'. -- 1.6.2.2.449.g92961.dirty