From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>, Git Mailing list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: "man git-checkout", man page is inconsistent between SYNOPSIS and details
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 09:29:37 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqtvzis87i.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1710010603340.17338@localhost.localdomain> (Robert P. J. Day's message of "Sun, 1 Oct 2017 06:05:44 -0400 (EDT)")
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> writes:
> ok, i'm going to have to digest all that; pretty sure someone else
> will need to change the man page to clarify the apparent inconsistency
> i was referring to:
>
> SYNOPSIS
> git checkout [-p|--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] [<paths>...]
> DESCRIPTION
> git checkout [-p|--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] <pathspec>...
Yes, and a short-version of my answer is that they both are wrong
;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-02 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-30 9:27 "man git-checkout", man page is inconsistent between SYNOPSIS and details Robert P. J. Day
2017-09-30 14:32 ` Kevin Daudt
2017-09-30 15:01 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-09-30 22:04 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-01 3:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-01 10:05 ` Robert P. J. Day
2017-10-02 0:29 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-10-11 2:39 ` [PATCH] checkout doc: clarify command line args for "checkout paths" mode Junio C Hamano
2017-10-11 3:22 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-10-11 5:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-10-11 5:16 ` Jonathan Nieder
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