git-tar-tree: no more void pointer arithmetic

[git.git] / Documentation / git-checkout.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 985bb2f..fbdbadc 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-checkout - Checkout and switch to a branch
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-checkout' [-f] [-b <new_branch>] [-m] [<branch>]
+'git-checkout' [-f] [-b <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>]
 'git-checkout' [-m] [<branch>] <paths>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -35,7 +35,15 @@ OPTIONS
        Force a re-read of everything.
 
 -b::
-       Create a new branch and start it at <branch>.
+       Create a new branch named <new_branch> and start it at
+       <branch>.  The new branch name must pass all checks defined
+       by gitlink:git-check-ref-format[1].  Some of these checks
+       may restrict the characters allowed in a branch name.
+
+-l::
+       Create the new branch's ref log.  This activates recording of
+       all changes to made the branch ref, enabling use of date
+       based sha1 expressions such as "<branchname>@{yesterday}".
 
 -m::
        If you have local modifications to one or more files that
@@ -66,19 +74,19 @@ the `Makefile` to two revisions back, deletes hello.c by
 mistake, and gets it back from the index.
 +
 ------------
-$ git checkout master <1>
-$ git checkout master~2 Makefile <2>
+$ git checkout master             <1>
+$ git checkout master~2 Makefile  <2>
 $ rm -f hello.c
-$ git checkout hello.c <3>
-
+$ git checkout hello.c            <3>
+------------
++
 <1> switch branch
 <2> take out a file out of other commit
-<3> or "git checkout -- hello.c", as in the next example.
-------------
+<3> restore hello.c from HEAD of current branch
 +
-If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, the
-last step above would be confused as an instruction to switch to
-that branch.  You should instead write:
+If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, this
+step would be confused as an instruction to switch to that branch.
+You should instead write:
 +
 ------------
 $ git checkout -- hello.c