On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:53 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> COMMANDS >> -------- >> +add <path> <branch>:: >> + >> +Check out `<branch>` into a separate working directory, `<path>`, creating >> +`<path>` if necessary. The new working directory is linked to the current >> +repository, sharing everything except working directory specific files >> +such as HEAD, index, etc. If `<path>` already exists, it must be empty. > > Side note, "must be empty" is an implementation limitation. I think > the two-way merge employed by git-checkout can deal with dirty <path> > and only perform the checkout if there is no data loss. But we can > leave this for later. Perhaps we should omit the bit about an existing but empty directory for now? Like this: Create `<path>` and checkout `<branch>` into it. The new working directory is linked to the current repository, sharing everything except working directory specific files such as HEAD, index, etc. -- 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