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git-checkout.txt: better docs for '--patch'

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Describe '-p' as a short form of '--patch' in synopsis and options.  Also
refer the reader to the patch mode description of git-add documentation.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Mentored-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Haenel <valentin.haenel@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Valentin Haenel 2011-05-05 20:48:48 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [--detach] [<commit>]
'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [[-b|-B|--orphan] <new_branch>] [<start_point>]
'git checkout' [-f|--ours|--theirs|-m|--conflict=<style>] [<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>...
'git checkout' --patch [<tree-ish>] [--] [<paths>...]
'git checkout' [-p|--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] [<paths>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ $ git checkout <branch>
that is to say, the branch is not reset/created unless "git checkout" is
successful.
'git checkout' [--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] <pathspec>...::
'git checkout' [-p|--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] <pathspec>...::
When <paths> or `--patch` are given, 'git checkout' does *not*
switch branches. It updates the named paths in the working tree
@ -183,7 +183,8 @@ the conflicted merge in the specified paths.
working tree (and if a <tree-ish> was specified, the index).
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This means that you can use `git checkout -p` to selectively discard
edits from your current working tree.
edits from your current working tree. See the ``Interactive Mode''
section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `\--patch` mode.
<branch>::
Branch to checkout; if it refers to a branch (i.e., a name that,