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diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 82e154de49..9cd51514db 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ the first namespace level. 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 commit. In +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) @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ This would tell us to use "hack" as the local branch when branching off of "origin/hack" (or "remotes/origin/hack", or even "refs/remotes/origin/hack"). If the given name has no slash, or the above guessing results in an empty name, the guessing is aborted. You can -exlicitly give a name with '-b' in such a case. +explicitly give a name with '-b' in such a case. --no-track:: Ignore the branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable. @@ -232,7 +232,6 @@ the `-m` option, you would see something like this: ------------ $ git checkout -m mytopic Auto-merging frotz -merge: warning: conflicts during merge ERROR: Merge conflict in frotz fatal: merge program failed ------------ |