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

From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Date: Jan 17, 2018, 13:42 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1801170541570.17204@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8A0BcdqwkDDd0Fx_8DDCgJc6gZaXkcYqysdv8BH1nvibQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 17 Jan 2018, Duy Nguyen wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 7:58 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> >   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)

  guess i better update my repo, thanks.

rday