From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss@iguanasuicide.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:16:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH,v2] git-checkout(1): mention fate of extraneous files
Message-ID: <200901191716.59373.bss@iguanasuicide.net>
In-Reply-To: <87priivrt3.fsf_-_@jidanni.org>

>-specified, <new_branch>.  Using -b will cause <new_branch> to
>+specified, <new_branch>. (No files are deleted, use linkgit:git-clean[1]
>+for a pristine checkout.) Using -b will cause <new_branch> to

The parenthetical remark is not true, here:
$ git status
# On branch anagrams
nothing to commit (working directory clean)
$ ls
anagram  fsdupfind
$ git checkout master
Switched to branch "master"
$ ls
fsdupfind

I think you mean "No untracked content is removed,...".
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