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| author | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-01-31 13:30:54 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-01-31 13:30:54 -0800 |
| commit | 84a978f11870824dae45c7d0fa612a10f64b3fff (patch) | |
| tree | 8da890c6816a52acb4eb02387f9912ac0b910d16 /Documentation/git-checkout.txt | |
| parent | 6e598c326dc4217c387fd797d182dc2ac0a0fc03 (diff) | |
| download | git-84a978f11870824dae45c7d0fa612a10f64b3fff.tar.gz | |
Documentation: "git-checkout <tree> <path>" takes any tree-ish
Especially, it is not limited to branch.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-checkout.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index c44a4a8004..4ea2b315d2 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] 'git-checkout' [-f] [-b <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>] -'git-checkout' [<branch>] <paths>... +'git-checkout' [<tree-ish>] <paths>... DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -22,11 +22,13 @@ be created. When <paths> are given, this command does *not* switch branches. It updates the named paths in the working tree from -the index file (i.e. it runs `git-checkout-index -f -u`). In +the index file (i.e. it runs `git-checkout-index -f -u`), or a +named commit. In this case, `-f` and `-b` options are meaningless and giving -either of them results in an error. <branch> argument can be -used to specify a specific tree-ish to update the index for the -given paths before updating the working tree. +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) +to update the index for the given paths before updating the +working tree. OPTIONS |