[PATCH] Reverse the order of -b and --track in the man page.

Brian Gernhardt· Apr 23, 2007, 23:56 UTC · lore

Using "-b --track newbranch oldbranch" gives the error:

  git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching
  branches/forcing

However, "--track -b ..." works just fine.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
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 Documentation/git-checkout.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Show changes to Documentation/git-checkout.txt +1 −1

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 4f2e847..918d8ee 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-checkout - Checkout and switch to a branch
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-checkout' [-q] [-f] [-b [--track | --no-track] <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>]
+'git-checkout' [-q] [-f] [[--track | --no-track] -b <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>]
 'git-checkout' [<tree-ish>] <paths>...
 
 DESCRIPTION

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1.5.2.rc0.1.g2cc31

patchReverse the order of -b and --track in the man page.