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authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-05-06 14:42:08 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-05-06 14:42:59 -0700
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Merge branch 'master' into js/fmt-patch
* master: (109 commits) t1300-repo-config: two new config parsing tests. Another config file parsing fix. update-index: plug memory leak from prefix_path() checkout-index: plug memory leak from prefix_path() update-index --unresolve: work from a subdirectory. pack-object: squelch eye-candy on non-tty core.prefersymlinkrefs: use symlinks for .git/HEAD repo-config: trim white-space before comment Fix for config file section parsing. Clarify git-cherry documentation. Update git-unpack-objects documentation. Fix up docs where "--" isn't displayed correctly. Several trivial documentation touch ups. git-svn 1.0.0 git-svn: documentation updates delta: stricter constness Makefile: do not link rev-list any specially. builtin-push: --all and --tags _are_ explicit refspecs builtin-log/whatchanged/show: make them official. show-branch: omit uninteresting merges. ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 985bb2f827..095128906a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -66,19 +66,19 @@ the `Makefile` to two revisions back, deletes hello.c by
mistake, and gets it back from the index.
+
------------
-$ git checkout master <1>
-$ git checkout master~2 Makefile <2>
+$ git checkout master <1>
+$ git checkout master~2 Makefile <2>
$ rm -f hello.c
-$ git checkout hello.c <3>
-
+$ git checkout hello.c <3>
+------------
++
<1> switch branch
<2> take out a file out of other commit
-<3> or "git checkout -- hello.c", as in the next example.
-------------
+<3> restore hello.c from HEAD of current branch
+
-If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, the
-last step above would be confused as an instruction to switch to
-that branch. You should instead write:
+If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, this
+step would be confused as an instruction to switch to that branch.
+You should instead write:
+
------------
$ git checkout -- hello.c