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| author | Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org> | 2010-06-02 23:32:31 +0000 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org> | 2010-06-02 23:32:31 +0000 |
| commit | e32ec8b89b623de73d1ccacb430b1c4ab16e4fcb (patch) | |
| tree | 27285614d896d302efe7f7740b87009fd0ae0c33 /git-checkout.txt | |
| parent | b671fb5c100813248be882136374ea6c6038d4e8 (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-e32ec8b89b623de73d1ccacb430b1c4ab16e4fcb.tar.gz | |
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diff --git a/git-checkout.txt b/git-checkout.txt index 4505eb6d8..afda5c36b 100644 --- a/git-checkout.txt +++ b/git-checkout.txt @@ -154,6 +154,10 @@ edits from your current working tree. As a special case, the `"@\{-N\}"` syntax for the N-th last branch checks out the branch (instead of detaching). You may also specify `-` which is synonymous with `"@\{-1\}"`. ++ +As a further 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`. <new_branch>:: Name for the new branch. |