From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>,
"Florian Weimer" <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What I miss from Cogito...
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:53:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vtziw3k9a.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080324021411.GE24943@mit.edu> (Theodore Tso's message of "Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:14:11 -0400")
Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
> git-checkout - Checkout and switch to a branch
>
> At the very least, will you admit that the summary in the man page is
> perhaps just a wee bit misleading?
It's not "wee bit misleading" but it just is outright stale.
Back then, before people realized the operation "to check out the path out
of index or tree-ish" belongs naturally to a command whose name is
"checkout", "to check out the named branch or a commit" was the only thing
that you could do with the command. The one-line description you quoted
above reflects that history.
Patches very much welcome; I did not notice it was kept stale.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-24 2:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-23 17:15 What I miss from Cogito H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-23 17:38 ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-23 17:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-27 2:36 ` Petr Baudis
2008-03-23 18:21 ` Luciano Rocha
2008-03-23 19:00 ` Mike Hommey
2008-03-23 19:07 ` Bruce Stephens
2008-03-23 19:07 ` Mike Hommey
2008-03-23 19:14 ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-24 0:16 ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-24 1:40 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-03-24 2:14 ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-24 2:53 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-03-24 2:57 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-03-24 3:06 ` [PATCH] Documentation/git-checkout: Update summary to reflect current abilities Julian Phillips
2008-03-24 16:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-24 3:06 ` Julian Phillips
2008-03-23 18:31 ` What I miss from Cogito Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-23 18:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-23 18:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-03-23 18:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-03-23 19:16 ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-03-23 19:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
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