# Fwd: Typo in worktree man page

4 messages from 2017-02-22 to 2017-02-22. Participants: Casey Rodarmor, brian m. carlson, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/45190

## Casey Rodarmor, 2017-02-22 00:52

Subject: Fwd: Typo in worktree man page
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Hi there,

The git worktree man page mentions the `--detached` flag in the
section on `add`, but the flag is actually called `--detach`.

Best,
Casey

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## brian m. carlson, 2017-02-22 12:32

Subject: Re: Fwd: Typo in worktree man page
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 04:52:11PM -0800, Casey Rodarmor wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> The git worktree man page mentions the `--detached` flag in the
> section on `add`, but the flag is actually called `--detach`.

Thanks for reporting this.  I'll send a patch.
-- 
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## brian m. carlson, 2017-02-22 12:34

Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: correctly spell git worktree --detach
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The option is “--detach”, but we accidentally spelled it “--detached” at
one point in the man page.

Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Reported-by: Casey Rodarmor <casey@rodarmor.com>
---
 Documentation/git-worktree.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
index e257c19ebe..553cf8413f 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ is linked to the current repository, sharing everything except working
 directory specific files such as HEAD, index, etc. `-` may also be
 specified as `<branch>`; it is synonymous with `@{-1}`.
 +
-If `<branch>` is omitted and neither `-b` nor `-B` nor `--detached` used,
+If `<branch>` is omitted and neither `-b` nor `-B` nor `--detach` used,
 then, as a convenience, a new branch based at HEAD is created automatically,
 as if `-b $(basename <path>)` was specified.
 

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## Junio C Hamano, 2017-02-22 17:50

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: correctly spell git worktree --detach
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"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> The option is “--detach”, but we accidentally spelled it “--detached” at
> one point in the man page.
>
> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
> Reported-by: Casey Rodarmor <casey@rodarmor.com>
> ---

Thanks, both.

>  Documentation/git-worktree.txt | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
> index e257c19ebe..553cf8413f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
> @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ is linked to the current repository, sharing everything except working
>  directory specific files such as HEAD, index, etc. `-` may also be
>  specified as `<branch>`; it is synonymous with `@{-1}`.
>  +
> -If `<branch>` is omitted and neither `-b` nor `-B` nor `--detached` used,
> +If `<branch>` is omitted and neither `-b` nor `-B` nor `--detach` used,
>  then, as a convenience, a new branch based at HEAD is created automatically,
>  as if `-b $(basename <path>)` was specified.
>  

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