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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-12-13 14:26:40 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-12-13 14:26:40 -0800 |
| commit | 371470a74a288fec266da71f914ff3ada119085f (patch) | |
| tree | 10f6f6ea05630845788eb0307d2d2b8095f958a9 /git-checkout.txt | |
| parent | 912712bb106faf8773bffb94876a77a2986f0be0 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-371470a74a288fec266da71f914ff3ada119085f.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.15.1-388-gd9a37
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diff --git a/git-checkout.txt b/git-checkout.txt index bfa64ca5c..ca5fc9c79 100644 --- a/git-checkout.txt +++ b/git-checkout.txt @@ -274,11 +274,11 @@ section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode. commit, your HEAD becomes "detached" and you are no longer on any branch (see below for details). + -As a special case, the `"@{-N}"` syntax for the N-th last branch/commit -checks out branches (instead of detaching). You may also specify -`-` which is synonymous with `"@{-1}"`. +You can use the `"@{-N}"` syntax to refer to the N-th last +branch/commit checked out using "git checkout" operation. You may +also specify `-` which is synonymous to `"@{-1}`. + -As a further special case, you may use `"A...B"` as a shortcut for the +As a special case, you may use `"A...B"` as a shortcut for the merge base of `A` and `B` if there is exactly one merge base. You can leave out at most one of `A` and `B`, in which case it defaults to `HEAD`. |