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Re: misleading "man git-worktree", is last "add" argument necessarily a "branch"?

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 17, 2018, 13:34 UTC
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 7:58 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
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>
>   perusing "git worktree", and man page reads:
>
>   SYNOPSIS
>        git worktree add [-f] [--detach] [--checkout] [--lock]   \
>                         [-b <new-branch>] <path> [<branch>]
>                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^
>
> however, can't that last optional argument be any arbitrary commit,
> not just a "branch"?

It's been changed to commit-ish about two months ago in c4738aedc0 (worktree: add can be created from any commit-ish - 2017-11-26)

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Duy
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  1. Robert P. J. DayJan 17, 2018
  2. Duy NguyenJan 17, 2018
  3. Robert P. J. DayJan 17, 2018
  4. Re* misleading "man git-worktree", is last "add" argument necessarily a "branch"?Junio C Hamano, Jan 17, 2018

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