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diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index a30e3ebc51..8bdfa54ab0 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ $ git checkout -b <branch> --track <remote>/<branch> You could omit `<branch>`, in which case the command degenerates to "check out the current branch", which is a glorified no-op with rather expensive side-effects to show only the tracking information, -if exists, for the current branch. +if it exists, for the current branch. 'git checkout' -b|-B <new-branch> [<start-point>]:: @@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ $ git checkout <branch> ------------ + that is to say, the branch is not reset/created unless "git checkout" is -successful. +successful (e.g., when the branch is in use in another worktree, not +just the current branch stays the same, but the branch is not reset to +the start-point, either). 'git checkout' --detach [<branch>]:: 'git checkout' [--detach] <commit>:: @@ -215,7 +217,7 @@ variable. below for details. --orphan <new-branch>:: - Create a new 'orphan' branch, named `<new-branch>`, started from + Create a new unborn branch, named `<new-branch>`, started from `<start-point>` and switch to it. The first commit made on this new branch will have no parents and it will be the root of a new history totally disconnected from all the other branches and |