Christoph Michelbach <michelbach94@xxxxxxxxx> 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?