[PATCH] Documentation/git-checkout: Move `--detach` flag in synopsis to correct command

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BBBenjamin Bergman <ben@benbergman.ca>

Date

Sep 11, 2013, 02:37 UTC

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>From a33659535cb0eac92bed42d5e494dbb8f5d9ab20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Benjamin Bergman <ben@benbergman.ca>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:00:29 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/git-checkout: Move `--detach` flag in synopsis
 to correct command

Detailed description of `--detach` states that it is default for
`<commit>` but needs to be specified for `<branch>`. The old man page
synopsis showed the reverse.
---
 Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index ca118ac..dee95e8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ git-checkout - Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [<branch>]
-'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [--detach] [<commit>]
+'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [--detach] [<branch>]
+'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [<commit>]
 'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [[-b|-B|--orphan] <new_branch>] [<start_point>]
 'git checkout' [-f|--ours|--theirs|-m|--conflict=<style>]
[<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>...
 'git checkout' [-p|--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] [<paths>...]

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