From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:19:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] doc/checkout: split checkout and branch creation in synopsis
Message-ID: <20090413131949.GA16293@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e0904130613g5b664706jb6a3c29107ac1fc9@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 03:13:06PM +0200, Sverre Rabbelier wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 13:19, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> > +'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [-b <new_branch>] [<start_point>]
> 
> This way doesn't it say you can leave out the [-b <new branch>] part
> but still specify a start point? I thought the general syntax for this
> would make it:
> 
> > +'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [-b <new_branch> [<start_point>]]

Oops, actually it is supposed to be:

 'git checkout' ... -b <new_branch> [<start_point>]

The cause where "-b <new_branch>" isn't used is covered in the line
above.

-Peff