Re: [PATCH] Attempt to make git-checkout man page a bit more clear.

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 21, 2006, 09:34 UTC
Message-ID: <emdk9f$c31$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <BAYC1-PASMTP071BBC53B5CE7917CE8DE1AECE0@CEZ.ICE>

Sean wrote:

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> On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:47:42 -0800
> Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> 
>> The 'restore from arbitrary tree-ish' form does not take -m as
>> far as I know.
>> 
>> Although it might be interesting to do a single-file three-way
>> merge, I do not think the command is _checkout_ anymore once it
>> starts doing that.
> 
> Yeah, I should have caught that.  As well, your explanation makes me
> wonder if it makes sense to change <branch> in the third form to
> <tree-ish> ?  Would you like an updated patch or will you just make
> the touch up(s) yourself?

Better not, because if I remember correctly

  $ git checkout [--] <paths>...

would replace the contents of the named paths in your working tree from the index, while

  $ git checkout <commit-ish> [--] <paths>...

would replace the contents of the named paths in your working tree from the given commit (given branch, perhaps given tree-ish).

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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