Re: [PATCH v2] git-checkout.txt: Document "git checkout <pathspec>" better

> Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:
> 
>> Yes, but "Switch branchs or discard local changes" still does not
>> describe "git checkout HEAD^^^ -- file.txt" (restore to an old state,
>> but does not switch branch) or "git checkout -- file.txt" (get from the
>> index).
> 
> You are right, especially when file.txt does not have any change
> relative to HEAD, there is no "discarding" going on.  You are
> actively introducing a change to an unchanged file by checking
> contents out of a different revision.
> 
>> To me, "discard local changes" imply that there will be no uncommited
>> changes on the files implied in the command after the operation.
> 
> Yup.