Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] git-checkout.txt: Document "git checkout <pathspec>" better

From: Torsten Bögershausen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 18:12:10 +0200

On 2015-06-17 17.29, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> Yes, but "Switch branchs or discard local changes" still does not
>> describe "git checkout HEAD^^^ -- file.txt" (restore to an old state,
>> but does not switch branch) or "git checkout -- file.txt" (get from the
>> index).
> 
> You are right, especially when file.txt does not have any change
> relative to HEAD, there is no "discarding" going on.  You are
> actively introducing a change to an unchanged file by checking
> contents out of a different revision.
> 
>> To me, "discard local changes" imply that there will be no uncommited
>> changes on the files implied in the command after the operation.
> 
> Yup.
Thanks for the comments.
I agree that we should keep the headline as is.
What is about the the rest of the patch?
Does it makes sense ?