From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Christoph Michelbach <michelbach94@gmail.com>
Cc: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-checkout: make doc. of checkout <tree-ish> clearer
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:40:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq1sspdvjk.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1492518377.5720.47.camel@gmail.com> (Christoph Michelbach's message of "Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:26:17 +0200")
Christoph Michelbach <michelbach94@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, 2017-04-17 at 17:31 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Obviously, "grab all paths that match <pathspec> out of <tree>, add
>> them to the index and copy them out to the working tree" will never
>> be able to _restore_ the lack of 'd', even it may match the
>> <pathspec> being used to do this checkout, by removing it from the
>> current index and the working tree.
>
> Exactly. "grab all paths that match <pathspec> out of <tree>, add them
> to the index and copy them out to the working tree" is a more accurate
> description of what the command does (but it might need some rewording
> ;-) ).
Of course it is accurate, as that is how I would write it, not
"restore", if I were doing the documentation.
Care to send in a patch to update the documentation?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-19 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-15 20:17 [PATCH] Documentation/git-checkout: make doc. of checkout <tree-ish> clearer Christoph Michelbach
2017-04-15 23:28 ` Philip Oakley
2017-04-16 13:01 ` Christoph Michelbach
2017-04-16 18:03 ` Philip Oakley
2017-04-16 18:51 ` Christoph Michelbach
2017-04-16 21:25 ` Philip Oakley
2017-04-16 22:06 ` Christoph Michelbach
2017-04-17 16:04 ` Philip Oakley
[not found] ` <1492452173.11708.22.camel@gmail.com>
2017-04-17 20:59 ` Philip Oakley
2017-04-18 0:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-18 12:26 ` Christoph Michelbach
2017-04-19 1:40 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-04-22 17:12 ` Christoph Michelbach
2017-04-24 1:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-24 12:24 ` Christoph Michelbach
2017-04-24 12:46 ` Christoph Michelbach
2017-04-25 1:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-25 9:11 ` Christoph Michelbach
2017-04-19 7:32 ` Philip Oakley
2017-04-18 11:50 ` Christoph Michelbach
2017-04-18 0:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-04-18 12:02 ` Christoph Michelbach
2017-04-19 8:14 ` Philip Oakley
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