From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sabyasachi Ruj Subject: Git checkout: difference in behavior and what is in the documentation Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:00:59 +0530 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 02 07:31:29 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OUYqW-00012Q-9v for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:31:28 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752868Ab0GBFbV (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jul 2010 01:31:21 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.216.174]:52108 "EHLO mail-qy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752836Ab0GBFbU (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Jul 2010 01:31:20 -0400 Received: by qyk35 with SMTP id 35so202737qyk.19 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:31:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=k8svrbClcLARze1Nn9RhHKiKX2Pcc0c+dMLby8GOMKE=; b=bMyhGzM/ZL9jDpC9jVsWuwDkOALwRpKBhq6O0BMX3f0aDuHeMWNJv+ytTeK1syRVVj 7Jy5sBmD40+tk4tYJwAbmoEeU6pgCCFoV5GRmaQoVTGYzDGZHYzvDwJrluwfVNl0q3tv sLcHY0xysUjtC0+n1XsIg9c1iC6Hj9QZ+wbLA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=enwCw2J8eZhLPn/3Kv3zVE8lUvSQmTgxmqaSG/yxtzwUfsP5zix4Y3CjSh6i/LZDaD kst0Jlr6MGE+ClOW9n9GUdcVDuLRsL48XO2SINPl+kM2bhe42kjNz1DF20cKHn4qmpHM OfaK2U6aUCxqsjExXvZJt7t0yx314wcTe0Yn4= Received: by 10.224.63.220 with SMTP id c28mr63798qai.360.1278048679211; Thu, 01 Jul 2010 22:31:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.241.149 with HTTP; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 22:30:59 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: I've asked the question in detail in Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3163325/confusion-about-git-checkout Even if there is no bug in the git behavior, I think the documentation should be more clear. -- Sabyasachi