Re: Suggestion: make git checkout safer

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 5, 2015, 10:49 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8Ch7myCC8s-=0yRvQYT_Rwrz97ZAW3mU2KQxVdac6vcbw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20150605T113129-339@post.gmane.org>

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com> wrote:

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> Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi <at> web.de> writes:
>
>>Do you think you can write a patch to improve the documentation ?
>
> Here is my attempt, but it is only a starting point.
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
> index d263a56..ee25354 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-checkout(1)
>
>  NAME
>  ----
> -git-checkout - Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree
> +git-checkout - Overwrite working tree files with a given branch

Maybe "switch branches or reset working tree files"?

-- 
Duy