Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:

quoted text
>        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.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html