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authorMatthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>2009-04-06 22:45:21 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-04-07 21:56:41 -0700
commitce8936c342a15a08029c71fdc92e283e3624bc18 (patch)
tree854ff3b20c3248c30d86a0d1dfa0c3f057ecec6c /Documentation/git-checkout.txt
parent4f6a32f8af9cceaf0c8ccf6d00d2f100dab5a6db (diff)
downloadgit-ce8936c342a15a08029c71fdc92e283e3624bc18.tar.gz
git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index
The command "git checkout" checks out from the index by default, not HEAD (the introducing comment were correct, but the detailled explanation added below were not). Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> 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
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@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ $ git checkout hello.c <3>
------------
+
<1> switch branch
-<2> take out a file out of other commit
-<3> restore hello.c from HEAD of current branch
+<2> take a file out of another commit
+<3> restore hello.c from the index
+
If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, this
step would be confused as an instruction to switch to that branch.