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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-08-26 11:40:08 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-08-26 11:40:08 -0700 |
| commit | 45aaf0310f2b85d9c3264d1703c82cd5085aaf24 (patch) | |
| tree | 6cf4ff7298a1796f85c5480392718477ee19274b /Documentation/git-checkout.txt | |
| parent | d0f1ea6003d97e63110fa7d50bb07f546a909b6e (diff) | |
| download | git-45aaf0310f2b85d9c3264d1703c82cd5085aaf24.tar.gz | |
doc: "git checkout -b/-B/--orphan" always takes a branch name
While the synopsis section makes it clear that the new branch name
is the parameter to these flags, the option description did not.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-checkout.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index c0a96e6c1e..e3270cdbc5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -84,11 +84,11 @@ entries; instead, unmerged entries are ignored. When checking out paths from the index, check out stage #2 ('ours') or #3 ('theirs') for unmerged paths. --b:: +-b <new_branch>:: Create a new branch named <new_branch> and start it at <start_point>; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. --B:: +-B <new_branch>:: Creates the branch <new_branch> and start it at <start_point>; if it already exists, then reset it to <start_point>. This is equivalent to running "git branch" with "-f"; see @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ explicitly give a name with '-b' in such a case. <commit> is not a branch name. See the "DETACHED HEAD" section below for details. ---orphan:: +--orphan <new_branch>:: Create a new 'orphan' branch, named <new_branch>, started from <start_point> and switch to it. The first commit made on this new branch will have no parents and it will be the root of a new |