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authorLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>2019-03-29 17:38:54 +0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2019-04-02 13:56:58 +0900
commit37f80025cdc5c2fe98039d45678f8ca9c7e36b93 (patch)
tree7f354eb40a2fc96d07336d3c1d101ad1f68c886d
parentgit-checkout.txt: spell out --no-option (diff)
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git-checkout.txt: fix one syntax line
<branch> can be omitted in this syntax, and it's actually documented a few paragraphs down: You could omit <branch>, in which case the command degenerates to "check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with rather expensive side-effects to show only the tracking information, if exists, for the current branch. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 99c8c0dc0f..28817cfa41 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ or the specified tree. If no paths are given, 'git checkout' will
also update `HEAD` to set the specified branch as the current
branch.
-'git checkout' <branch>::
+'git checkout' [<branch>]::
To prepare for working on <branch>, switch to it by updating
the index and the files in the working tree, and by pointing
HEAD at the branch. Local modifications to the files in the