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From: Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@gmail.com>
To: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Cc: gitster@pobox.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-checkout.txt: clarify that <branch> applies when  no path is given.
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 10:41:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2b179460904070241y493ef876xc628d35b606e4032@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1239050722-1227-2-git-send-email-Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>

2009/4/6 Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>:
> Otherwise, the sentence "Defaults to HEAD." can be mis-read to mean
> that "git checkout -- hello.c" checks-out from HEAD.

> diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
> index 0b5485b..58bf508 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
> @@ -126,9 +126,14 @@ the conflicted merge in the specified paths.
>  <new_branch>::
>        Name for the new branch.
>
> +<tree-ish>::
> +       Tree to checkout from (when path are given). If not specified,
> +       the index will be used.
> +
>  <branch>::
> -       Branch to checkout; may be any object ID that resolves to a
> -       commit.  Defaults to HEAD.
> +       Branch to checkout (when no path are given); may be any object
> +       ID that resolves to a commit.  Defaults to HEAD.
> +

s/path are/paths are/g

Sorry if I come across as picking on your grammar, I think your
documentation improvements are very worthwhile.

Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-07  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-06 20:45 [PATCH 1/2] git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index Matthieu Moy
2009-04-06 20:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] git-checkout.txt: clarify that <branch> applies when no path is given Matthieu Moy
2009-04-07  9:41   ` Mike Ralphson [this message]
2009-04-07 10:20     ` [PATCH 1/2] " Matthieu Moy
2009-04-07 12:43       ` [PATCH v2] " Matthieu Moy
2009-04-07  1:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index Junio C Hamano

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