On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Nanako Shiraishi <nanako3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A short answer is "no it is not the case." Thanks. > I was about to quote "git checkout" documentation to you because I was reasonably sure that Junio won't respond to people who ask a question whose answer is plainly described in the manual pages, but I think the description of the command is a little confusing especially for people who read it for the first time. Agreed. > When <paths> are given, this command does *not* switch > branches. It updates the named paths in the working tree from > the index file, or from a named <tree-ish> (most often a commit). In > this case, the `-b` options is meaningless and giving > either of them results in an error. <tree-ish> argument can be > used to specify a specific tree-ish (i.e. commit, tag or tree) Works a lot better. Thanks for the help! -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://burningones.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ - Spend less time on e-mail -- 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