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

From: Matthieu Moy <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 09:00:16 +0200

Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

> I think "restore" also by definition has to go back to _some_
> existing version, not a future yet-to-be-created one, so "restore to
> some previous state" is superfluous;

That's why I found "restore recorded state" not too bad.

> "restore working tree files"

Not a native, but to me "restore file" sounds like "the file is damaged,
it needs to be restored/repaired".

In any case,

  Switch branches or restore working tree files

is an improvement over the existing to me, so my bikeshedding should not
be used to reject this proposal.

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Matthieu Moy
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