[PATCH] Improvements to `git checkout -h`
From: Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89+git@googlemail.com>
be a little more verbose about what each option does
Signed-off-by: Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89+git@googlemail.com>
---
Daniel seems to have difficulty to send the patch through gmail, here
it is again, taken from repo.or.cz.
That seems OK for inclusion to me.
builtin/checkout.c | 12 ++++++------
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c
index 560eae1..a54583b 100644
--- a/builtin/checkout.c
+++ b/builtin/checkout.c
@@ -691,16 +691,16 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
"create and checkout a new branch"),
OPT_STRING('B', NULL, &opts.new_branch_force, "branch",
"create/reset and checkout a branch"),
- OPT_BOOLEAN('l', NULL, &opts.new_branch_log, "log for new branch"),
- OPT_SET_INT('t', "track", &opts.track, "track",
+ OPT_BOOLEAN('l', NULL, &opts.new_branch_log, "create reflog for new branch"),
+ OPT_SET_INT('t', "track", &opts.track, "set upstream info for new branch",
BRANCH_TRACK_EXPLICIT),
OPT_STRING(0, "orphan", &opts.new_orphan_branch, "new branch", "new unparented branch"),
- OPT_SET_INT('2', "ours", &opts.writeout_stage, "stage",
+ OPT_SET_INT('2', "ours", &opts.writeout_stage, "checkout our version for unmerged files",
2),
- OPT_SET_INT('3', "theirs", &opts.writeout_stage, "stage",
+ OPT_SET_INT('3', "theirs", &opts.writeout_stage, "checkout their version for unmerged files",
3),
- OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "force", &opts.force, "force"),
- OPT_BOOLEAN('m', "merge", &opts.merge, "merge"),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "force", &opts.force, "force checkout (throw away local modifications)"),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN('m', "merge", &opts.merge, "perform a 3-way merge with the new branch"),
OPT_STRING(0, "conflict", &conflict_style, "style",
"conflict style (merge or diff3)"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('p', "patch", &patch_mode, "select hunks interactively"),
--
1.7.3.2.g257b5f
Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@imag.fr>