[PATCH] git-checkout(1) mention fate of extraneous files
Signed-off-by: jidanni <jidanni@jidanni.org>
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Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 13 +++++++------
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 9cd5151..bce31c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -14,12 +14,13 @@ SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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-When <paths> are not given, this command switches branches by
-updating the index and working tree to reflect the specified
-branch, <branch>, and updating HEAD to be <branch> or, if
-specified, <new_branch>. Using -b will cause <new_branch> to
-be created; in this case you can use the --track or --no-track
-options, which will be passed to `git branch`.
+When <paths> are not given, this command switches branches by updating
+the index and working tree to reflect the specified branch, <branch>,
+and updating HEAD to be <branch> or, if specified, <new_branch>. (No
+extraneous files present are deleted, use linkgit:git-clean[1] for a
+pristine checkout.) Using -b will cause <new_branch> to be created; in
+this case you can use the --track or --no-track options, which will be
+passed to `git branch`.
As a convenience, --track will default to create a branch whose
name is constructed from the specified branch name by stripping
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1.6.0.6
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