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Re: What I miss from Cogito...

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 24, 2008, 02:53 UTC
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Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
>        git-checkout - Checkout and switch to a branch
>
> At the very least, will you admit that the summary in the man page is
> perhaps just a wee bit misleading?
It's not "wee bit misleading" but it just is outright stale.

Back then, before people realized the operation "to check out the path out of index or tree-ish" belongs naturally to a command whose name is "checkout", "to check out the named branch or a commit" was the only thing that you could do with the command. The one-line description you quoted above reflects that history.

Patches very much welcome; I did not notice it was kept stale.
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  1. H. Peter AnvinMar 23, 2008
  2. Theodore TsoMar 23, 2008
  3. H. Peter AnvinMar 23, 2008
  4. Petr BaudisMar 27, 2008
  5. Luciano RochaMar 23, 2008
  6. Mike HommeyMar 23, 2008
  7. Bruce StephensMar 23, 2008
  8. Mike HommeyMar 23, 2008
  9. Florian WeimerMar 23, 2008
  10. Theodore TsoMar 24, 2008
  11. Björn SteinbrinkMar 24, 2008
  12. Theodore TsoMar 24, 2008
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2008
  14. Documentation/git-checkout: Update summary to reflect current abilitiesJulian Phillips, Mar 24, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 24, 2008
  16. Documentation/git-checkout: Update summary to reflect current abilitiesJulian Phillips, Mar 24, 2008
  17. Björn SteinbrinkMar 24, 2008
  18. Johannes SchindelinMar 23, 2008
  19. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2008
  20. H. Peter AnvinMar 23, 2008
  21. Junio C HamanoMar 23, 2008
  22. Daniel BarkalowMar 23, 2008
  23. H. Peter AnvinMar 23, 2008

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