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diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index c44a4a800..1ae77be45 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ git-checkout - Checkout and switch to a branch
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git-checkout' [-f] [-b <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>]
-'git-checkout' [<branch>] <paths>...
+'git-checkout' [-q] [-f] [-b <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>]
+'git-checkout' [<tree-ish>] <paths>...
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -22,15 +22,20 @@ be created.
 
 When <paths> are given, this command does *not* switch
 branches.  It updates the named paths in the working tree from
-the index file (i.e. it runs `git-checkout-index -f -u`).  In
+the index file (i.e. it runs `git-checkout-index -f -u`), or a
+named commit.  In
 this case, `-f` and `-b` options are meaningless and giving
-either of them results in an error.  <branch> argument can be
-used to specify a specific tree-ish to update the index for the
-given paths before updating the working tree.
+either of them results in an error.  <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.
 
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
+-q::
+	Quiet, supress feedback messages.
+
 -f::
 	Force a re-read of everything.
 
@@ -56,7 +61,8 @@ OPTIONS
 +
 When a merge conflict happens, the index entries for conflicting
 paths are left unmerged, and you need to resolve the conflicts
-and mark the resolved paths with `git update-index`.
+and mark the resolved paths with `git add` (or `git rm` if the merge
+should result in deletion of the path).
 
 <new_branch>::
 	Name for the new branch.
@@ -98,22 +104,12 @@ by any branch (which is natural --- you are not on any branch).
 What this means is that you can discard your temporary commits
 and merges by switching back to an existing branch (e.g. `git
 checkout master`), and a later `git prune` or `git gc` would
-garbage-collect them.
-
-The command would refuse to switch back to make sure that you do
-not discard your temporary state by mistake when your detached
-HEAD is not pointed at by any existing ref.  If you did want to
-save your state (e.g. "I was interested in the fifth commit from
-the top of 'master' branch", or "I made two commits to fix minor
-bugs while on a detached HEAD" -- and if you do not want to lose
-these facts), you can create a new branch and switch to it with
-`git checkout -b newbranch` so that you can keep building on
-that state, or tag it first so that you can come back to it
-later and switch to the branch you wanted to switch to with `git
-tag that_state; git checkout master`.  On the other hand, if you
-did want to discard the temporary state, you can give `-f`
-option (e.g. `git checkout -f master`) to override this
-behaviour.
+garbage-collect them.  If you did this by mistake, you can ask
+the reflog for HEAD where you were, e.g.
+
+------------
+$ git log -g -2 HEAD
+------------
 
 
 EXAMPLES
@@ -184,11 +180,11 @@ fatal: merge program failed
 At this point, `git diff` shows the changes cleanly merged as in
 the previous example, as well as the changes in the conflicted
 files.  Edit and resolve the conflict and mark it resolved with
-`git update-index` as usual:
+`git add` as usual:
 +
 ------------
 $ edit frotz
-$ git update-index frotz
+$ git add frotz
 ------------