From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 01:40:31 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-checkout: make doc. of checkout <tree-ish> clearer
Message-ID: <xmqq1sspdvjk.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1492518377.5720.47.camel@gmail.com>

Christoph Michelbach <michelbach94@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, 2017-04-17 at 17:31 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Obviously, "grab all paths that match <pathspec> out of <tree>, add
>> them to the index and copy them out to the working tree" will never
>> be able to _restore_ the lack of 'd', even it may match the
>> <pathspec> being used to do this checkout, by removing it from the
>> current index and the working tree.
>
> Exactly. "grab all paths that match <pathspec> out of <tree>, add them
> to the index and copy them out to the working tree" is a more accurate
> description of what the command does (but it might need some rewording
> ;-) ).

Of course it is accurate, as that is how I would write it, not
"restore", if I were doing the documentation.

Care to send in a patch to update the documentation?