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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-12-13 13:28:57 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-12-13 13:28:57 -0800 |
| commit | 706566524ef59a97e89ba895b800398ef823d109 (patch) | |
| tree | 5d573b5192ee4eb8347826b97bcd455cfacd5705 /Documentation | |
| parent | 577051bca44077b29f625cf14cac9360b2d11be9 (diff) | |
| parent | 75ce14957507bc310ad118df08c4a85fd9cedc0d (diff) | |
| download | git-706566524ef59a97e89ba895b800398ef823d109.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'ks/doc-checkout-previous'
@{-N} in "git checkout @{-N}" may refer to a detached HEAD state,
but the documentation was not clear about it, which has been fixed.
* ks/doc-checkout-previous:
Doc/checkout: checking out using @{-N} can lead to detached state
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index bfa64ca5c9..ca5fc9c798 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -274,11 +274,11 @@ section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode. commit, your HEAD becomes "detached" and you are no longer on any branch (see below for details). + -As a special case, the `"@{-N}"` syntax for the N-th last branch/commit -checks out branches (instead of detaching). You may also specify -`-` which is synonymous with `"@{-1}"`. +You can use the `"@{-N}"` syntax to refer to the N-th last +branch/commit checked out using "git checkout" operation. You may +also specify `-` which is synonymous to `"@{-1}`. + -As a further special case, you may use `"A...B"` as a shortcut for the +As a special case, you may use `"A...B"` as a shortcut for the merge base of `A` and `B` if there is exactly one merge base. You can leave out at most one of `A` and `B`, in which case it defaults to `HEAD`. |