checkout: make the message about the need for a new branch a bit clearer

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
maint
Nicolas Pitre 2006-12-22 15:06:54 -05:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent a979d1289b
commit 0a5761746c
1 changed files with 5 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -146,8 +146,11 @@ fi

[ -z "$branch$newbranch" ] &&
[ "$new" != "$old" ] &&
die "git checkout: to checkout the requested commit you need to specify
a name for a new branch which is created and switched to"
die "git checkout: provided reference cannot be checked out directly

You need -b to associate a new branch with the wanted checkout. Example:
git checkout -b <new_branch_name> $arg
"

if [ "X$old" = X ]
then