Merge branch 'jl/clone-recurse-sm-synonym'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index f88e9977d1137da0449736f5f8fe6746b42437e1..880763d391d18364485edc2e1e3dfc6f52243973 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -45,14 +45,14 @@ successful.
 
 'git checkout' [--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] <pathspec>...::
 
-       When <paths> or `--patch` are given, 'git checkout' *not* switch
-       branches.  It updates the named paths in the working tree from
-       the index file or from a named <tree-ish> (most often a commit).  In
-       this case, the `-b` and `--track` options are meaningless and giving
-       either of them results in an error. The <tree-ish> argument can be
-       used to specify a specific tree-ish (i.e. commit, tag or tree)
-       to update the index for the given paths before updating the
-       working tree.
+       When <paths> or `--patch` are given, 'git checkout' does *not*
+       switch branches.  It updates the named paths in the working tree
+       from the index file or from a named <tree-ish> (most often a
+       commit).  In this case, the `-b` and `--track` options are
+       meaningless and giving either of them results in an error.  The
+       <tree-ish> argument can be used to specify a specific tree-ish
+       (i.e.  commit, tag or tree) to update the index for the given
+       paths before updating the working tree.
 +
 The index may contain unmerged entries because of a previous failed merge.
 By default, if you try to check out such an entry from the index, the
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ entries; instead, unmerged entries are ignored.
        "--track" in linkgit:git-branch[1] for details.
 +
 If no '-b' option is given, the name of the new branch will be
-derived from the remote branch.  If "remotes/" or "refs/remotes/"
+derived from the remote-tracking branch.  If "remotes/" or "refs/remotes/"
 is prefixed it is stripped away, and then the part up to the
 next slash (which would be the nickname of the remote) is removed.
 This would tell us to use "hack" as the local branch when branching