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From: "Andres G. Aragoneses" <knocte@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-checkout.txt: Document "git checkout <pathspec>" better
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:47:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mlrmnt$te5$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpq8ubiwqo9.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

On 17/06/15 12:54, Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de> wrote:
>>> -git-checkout - Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree
>>> +git-checkout - Switch branches or restore changes
>>
>> I didn't follow closely the previous discussion.
>
> (Neither did I)
>
>> Forgive me if this is already discussed, but I would keep the "in the
>> working tree". "Restore changes" alone seems vague.
>
> "Restore previous version" would be better than "Restore changes" to me.

"previous version" sounds ambiguous. How about "discard local changes"?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-17 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-17  7:54 [PATCH v2] git-checkout.txt: Document "git checkout <pathspec>" better Torsten Bögershausen
2015-06-17  9:58 ` Duy Nguyen
2015-06-17 10:54   ` Matthieu Moy
2015-06-17 11:47     ` Andres G. Aragoneses [this message]
2015-06-17 11:54       ` Matthieu Moy
2015-06-17 11:56         ` Andres G. Aragoneses
2015-06-17 12:17           ` Matthieu Moy
2015-06-17 15:29             ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-17 16:12               ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-06-17 16:19               ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-17 16:43                 ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-06-17 17:24                   ` Matthieu Moy
2015-06-17 17:53                     ` Andres G. Aragoneses
2015-06-17 19:24                       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-17 19:23                     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-17 19:29                       ` Torsten Bögershausen
2015-06-17 19:58                         ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-18  0:37                           ` Duy Nguyen
2015-06-18  1:07                             ` Junio C Hamano
2015-06-18  7:00                       ` Matthieu Moy

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