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author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-01-19 17:12:41 (GMT) |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-01-19 17:44:08 (GMT) |
commit | fedb8ea2df0325950285529b6e9e3f65cb227c67 (patch) | |
tree | 53d7760977986a5896524d0640bac8d82edb00bb /Documentation | |
parent | 37537d6472d87098d455b6a0c36885997ea81a85 (diff) | |
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checkout: document -b/-B to highlight the differences from "git branch"
The existing text read as if "git checkout -b/-B name" were
equivalent to "git branch [-f] name", which clearly was not
what we wanted to say.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 4cb9d55..dcff441 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -146,14 +146,16 @@ on your side branch as `theirs` (i.e. "one contributor's work on top of it"). -b <new-branch>:: - Create a new branch named `<new-branch>` and start it at - `<start-point>`; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. + Create a new branch named `<new-branch>`, start it at + `<start-point>`, and check the resulting branch out; + see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. -B <new-branch>:: - Creates the branch `<new-branch>` and start it at `<start-point>`; - if it already exists, then reset it to `<start-point>`. This is - equivalent to running "git branch" with "-f"; see - linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. + Creates the branch `<new-branch>`, start it at `<start-point>`; + if it already exists, then reset it to `<start-point>`. And then + check the resulting branch out. This is equivalent to running + "git branch" with "-f" followed by "git checkout" of that branch; + see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. -t:: --track[=(direct|inherit)]:: |