For a while now, git-checkout has been more powerful than the man-page summary would suggest (the main text does describe the new features), so update the summary to hopefully better reflect the current functionality. Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes: > >> git-checkout - Checkout and switch to a branch >> >> At the very least, will you admit that the summary in the man page is >> perhaps just a wee bit misleading? > > It's not "wee bit misleading" but it just is outright stale. > > Back then, before people realized the operation "to check out the path out > of index or tree-ish" belongs naturally to a command whose name is > "checkout", "to check out the named branch or a commit" was the only thing > that you could do with the command. The one-line description you quoted > above reflects that history. > > Patches very much welcome; I did not notice it was kept stale. Something like this perhaps? Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 4014e72..1b8caf1 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-checkout(1) NAME ---- -git-checkout - Checkout and switch to a branch +git-checkout - Checkout/update/refresh items in the working tree SYNOPSIS -------- -- 1.5.4.4 -- 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
