# Re: git-checkout(1) Manual Page

1 messages from 2010-09-27 to 2010-09-27. Participants: Linus Torvalds.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25263

## Linus Torvalds, 2010-09-27 19:18

Subject: Re: git-checkout(1) Manual Page
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=on_oo9ipZQJXd1tmyS+1nf5L5_02e+3Atwyxq@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTi%3Don_oo9ipZQJXd1tmyS%2B1nf5L5_02e%2B3Atwyxq%40mail.gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <29C9CE22-0DB6-4B81-AD9E-E3F185A0201A@krankikom.de>

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Junio,
 as reported by Rainer.. Trivial patch attached if you want to use
that, or just do it yourself.

                         Linus

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Rainer Standke
<rainer.standke@krankikom.de> wrote:
> Hello Mr. Torvalds,
>
> I am wondering if you might need to add 'does' to the following line in the manual:
> "When <paths> or --patch are given, git checkout not switch branches."
>
> It might then read:
> "When <paths> or --patch are given, git checkout does not switch branches."
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Rainer Standke


From 83967b95dd82fa0bdcc72a801c93e591d0560e2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:14:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix missing 'does' in man-page for 'git checkout'

Reported-by: Rainer Standke <rainer.standke@krankikom.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 Documentation/git-checkout.txt |   16 ++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index f88e997..22d3611 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -45,14 +45,14 @@ successful.
 
 'git checkout' [--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] <pathspec>...::
 
-	When <paths> or `--patch` are given, 'git checkout' *not* switch
-	branches.  It updates the named paths in the working tree from
-	the index file or from a named <tree-ish> (most often a commit).  In
-	this case, the `-b` and `--track` options are meaningless and giving
-	either of them results in an error. The <tree-ish> argument can be
-	used to specify a specific tree-ish (i.e. commit, tag or tree)
-	to update the index for the given paths before updating the
-	working tree.
+	When <paths> or `--patch` are given, 'git checkout' does *not*
+	switch branches.  It updates the named paths in the working tree
+	from the index file or from a named <tree-ish> (most often a
+	commit).  In this case, the `-b` and `--track` options are
+	meaningless and giving either of them results in an error.  The
+	<tree-ish> argument can be used to specify a specific tree-ish
+	(i.e.  commit, tag or tree) to update the index for the given
+	paths before updating the working tree.
 +
 The index may contain unmerged entries because of a previous failed merge.
 By default, if you try to check out such an entry from the index, the
-- 
1.7.3


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