From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 18:42:19 GMT Subject: [PATCH] doc: "git checkout -b/-B/--orphan" always takes a branch name Message-ID: <7v4nnpv6k4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: While the synopsis section makes it clear that the new branch name is the parameter to these flags, the option description did not. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index c0a96e6..e3270cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -84,11 +84,11 @@ entries; instead, unmerged entries are ignored. When checking out paths from the index, check out stage #2 ('ours') or #3 ('theirs') for unmerged paths. --b:: +-b :: Create a new branch named and start it at ; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. --B:: +-B :: Creates the branch and start it at ; if it already exists, then reset it to . This is equivalent to running "git branch" with "-f"; see @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ explicitly give a name with '-b' in such a case. is not a branch name. See the "DETACHED HEAD" section below for details. ---orphan:: +--orphan :: Create a new 'orphan' branch, named , started from and switch to it. The first commit made on this new branch will have no parents and it will be the root of a new -- 1.7.12.252.gef4e272