From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.1 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI, RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4697D207BC for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2017 01:40:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933067AbdDSBkg (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2017 21:40:36 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp1.pobox.com ([64.147.108.70]:61120 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758918AbdDSBke (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Apr 2017 21:40:34 -0400 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79499817ED; Tue, 18 Apr 2017 21:40:33 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=gHov/m+ZMcEU lBrJe5YYR6WygCA=; b=HTRfa0Qzjnwo9UEzJyCrEuN1EhM3yhW937VGt3tKcnG1 IY06fkWMrYNG1fqyWR+iOhEdXzgc4uFZnFmWguC4Q++3lO3x13VBnq32TJjJdY/A c9F9Zn2OKo18Yyq8GiiEY1rXszSZZPrtSl0CdDLHps2iVexi/BAM/Y4UiTPhvhY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=mPLQ08 tz56xqsI9ddBVI4tP8t0EufZJeDMfQ+EsD39EpL/WfVDsJCsUMr7bNcXO6CwCZlv +ZzFqwauNJmwJFvbSLNjZSGUQDbMbnq1RDBJewkOG0IMlb6+dl5/IFLrZsk3ucS5 SBPsCTNkzH+DaFTL3I0GvvuE2cj8bVRJ9+81E= Received: from pb-smtp1.nyi.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72BE8817EC; Tue, 18 Apr 2017 21:40:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [104.132.0.95]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp1.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D7F4E817EA; Tue, 18 Apr 2017 21:40:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Christoph Michelbach Cc: Philip Oakley , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-checkout: make doc. of checkout clearer References: <1492287435.14812.2.camel@gmail.com> <9535BE255A654CADB7B0AE7599A6FA96@PhilipOakley> <1492347718.19687.14.camel@gmail.com> <2DCA89C3FDFF41E5B3651018BF837267@PhilipOakley> <1492368692.22852.9.camel@gmail.com> <1492380399.19991.13.camel@gmail.com> <5EBADDE444D141918F6873BE8456E026@PhilipOakley> <1492452173.11708.22.camel@gmail.com> <5FD0803E166B4D2F9F64D8D21AC23EB3@PhilipOakley> <1492518377.5720.47.camel@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:40:31 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1492518377.5720.47.camel@gmail.com> (Christoph Michelbach's message of "Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:26:17 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.91 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 2D73FF88-24A1-11E7-89AA-E680B56B9B0B-77302942!pb-smtp1.pobox.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Christoph Michelbach writes: > On Mon, 2017-04-17 at 17:31 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Obviously, "grab all paths that match out of , add >> them to the index and copy them out to the working tree" will never >> be able to _restore_ the lack of 'd', even it may match the >> being used to do this checkout, by removing it from the >> current index and the working tree. > > Exactly.=C2=A0"grab all paths that match out of , add = them > to the index and copy them out to the working tree" is a more accurate > description of what the command does (but it might need some rewording > ;-) ). Of course it is accurate, as that is how I would write it, not "restore", if I were doing the documentation. Care to send in a patch to update the documentation?