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doc: "git checkout -b/-B/--orphan" always takes a branch name
While the synopsis section makes it clear that the new branch name is the parameter to these flags, the option description did not. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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When checking out paths from the index, check out stage #2
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('ours') or #3 ('theirs') for unmerged paths.
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-b::
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-b <new_branch>::
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Create a new branch named <new_branch> and start it at
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<start_point>; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details.
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-B::
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-B <new_branch>::
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Creates the branch <new_branch> and start it at <start_point>;
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if it already exists, then reset it to <start_point>. This is
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equivalent to running "git branch" with "-f"; see
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@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ explicitly give a name with '-b' in such a case.
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<commit> is not a branch name. See the "DETACHED HEAD" section
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below for details.
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--orphan::
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--orphan <new_branch>::
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Create a new 'orphan' branch, named <new_branch>, started from
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<start_point> and switch to it. The first commit made on this
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new branch will have no parents and it will be the root of a new
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