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From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl•com>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Call out the two different uses of git-branch and fix a typo.
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:24:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1FKPFF-00061q-4Y@jdl.com> (raw)


Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@jdl•com>


---

 Documentation/git-branch.txt |   10 +++++++---
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

1a4336ee2a807d4ccc23d97c7b5c2dce2d4ef116
diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 4cd0cb9..71ecd85 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -7,16 +7,20 @@ git-branch - Create a new branch, or rem
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-branch' [(-d | -D) <branchname>] | [[-f] <branchname> [<start-point>]]
+[verse]
+'git-branch' [[-f] <branchname> [<start-point>]]
+'git-branch' (-d | -D) <branchname>
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 If no argument is provided, show available branches and mark current
 branch with star. Otherwise, create a new branch of name <branchname>.
-
 If a starting point is also specified, that will be where the branch is
 created, otherwise it will be created at the current HEAD.
 
+With a `-d` or `-D` option, `<branchname>` will be deleted.
+
+
 OPTIONS
 -------
 -d::
@@ -39,7 +43,7 @@ OPTIONS
 Examples
 ~~~~~~~~
 
-Start development off of a know tag::
+Start development off of a known tag::
 +
 ------------
 $ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.6 my2.6
-- 
1.2.4.gdd7be

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