On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > it's simply a matter of the forms not matching between the SYNOPSIS
> > and the DESCRIPTION sections. am i making sense?
>
> I think the whole thing is wrong and the root cause is because the
> (relatively newer) description of the "--patch" mode lazily tried to
> piggy-back the description of existing "check out from the index or
> tree-ish" mode, ending up in a confusing description...
... big snip ...
ok, i'm going to have to digest all that; pretty sure someone else
will need to change the man page to clarify the apparent inconsistency
i was referring to:
SYNOPSIS
git checkout [-p|--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] [<paths>...]
DESCRIPTION
git checkout [-p|--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] <pathspec>...
and on that note, i'll get back to proofreading.
rday
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