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

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Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Date
Jan 17, 2018, 12:58 UTC
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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"?

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

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