On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 7:17 AM, Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com> wrote: > COMMANDS > -------- > +add <path> <branch>:: > + > +Check out `<branch>` into a separate working directory, `<path>`, creating > +`<path>` if necessary. The new working directory is linked to the current > +repository, sharing everything except working directory specific files > +such as HEAD, index, etc. If `<path>` already exists, it must be empty.
Side note, "must be empty" is an implementation limitation. I think the two-way merge employed by git-checkout can deal with dirty <path> and only perform the checkout if there is no data loss. But we can leave this for later. -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
