On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 18:26, Knittl <knittl89@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> any thoughts on this one? > > Hi and thanks for patching Git, but could you please submit patches as > detailed in Documentation/SubmittingPatches ? as i use gmail i thought i'd link to the patch, not to mess up whitespace (still haven't got it working the correct way) anyways, here it goes inlined: -------8<--------- >From 15781ca9a67f406ec4d608b2e3eae2b129eb7c06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89+git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 14:04:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Improvements to `git checkout -h` be a little more verbose about what each option does Signed-off-by: Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89+git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/checkout.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/checkout.c b/builtin/checkout.c index f2f355a..9240faf 100644 --- a/builtin/checkout.c +++ b/builtin/checkout.c @@ -691,16 +691,16 @@ int cmd_checkout(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) "create and checkout a new branch"), OPT_STRING('B', NULL, &opts.new_branch_force, "branch", "create/reset and checkout a branch"), - OPT_BOOLEAN('l', NULL, &opts.new_branch_log, "log for new branch"), - OPT_SET_INT('t', "track", &opts.track, "track", + OPT_BOOLEAN('l', NULL, &opts.new_branch_log, "create reflog for new branch"), + OPT_SET_INT('t', "track", &opts.track, "set upstream info for new branch", BRANCH_TRACK_EXPLICIT), OPT_STRING(0, "orphan", &opts.new_orphan_branch, "new branch", "new unparented branch"), - OPT_SET_INT('2', "ours", &opts.writeout_stage, "stage", + OPT_SET_INT('2', "ours", &opts.writeout_stage, "checkout our version for unmerged files", 2), - OPT_SET_INT('3', "theirs", &opts.writeout_stage, "stage", + OPT_SET_INT('3', "theirs", &opts.writeout_stage, "checkout their version for unmerged files", 3), - OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "force", &opts.force, "force"), - OPT_BOOLEAN('m', "merge", &opts.merge, "merge"), + OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "force", &opts.force, "force checkout (throw away local modifications)"), + OPT_BOOLEAN('m', "merge", &opts.merge, "perform a 3-way merge with the new branch"), OPT_STRING(0, "conflict", &conflict_style, "style", "conflict style (merge or diff3)"), OPT_BOOLEAN('p', "patch", &patch_mode, "select hunks interactively"), -- 1.7.3.235.g952099 -- typed with http://neo-layout.org myFtPhp -- visit http://myftphp.sf.net -- v. 0.4.7 released! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html