checkout: document -b/-B to highlight the differences from "git branch"
The existing text read as if "git checkout -b/-B name" were equivalent to "git branch [-f] name", which clearly was not what we wanted to say. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>maint
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@ -146,14 +146,16 @@ on your side branch as `theirs` (i.e. "one contributor's work on top
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of it").
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-b <new-branch>::
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Create a new branch named `<new-branch>` and start it at
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`<start-point>`; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details.
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Create a new branch named `<new-branch>`, start it at
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`<start-point>`, and check the resulting branch out;
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see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details.
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-B <new-branch>::
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Creates the branch `<new-branch>` and start it at `<start-point>`;
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if it already exists, then reset it to `<start-point>`. This is
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equivalent to running "git branch" with "-f"; see
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linkgit:git-branch[1] for details.
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Creates the branch `<new-branch>`, start it at `<start-point>`;
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if it already exists, then reset it to `<start-point>`. And then
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check the resulting branch out. This is equivalent to running
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"git branch" with "-f" followed by "git checkout" of that branch;
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see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details.
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-t::
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--track[=(direct|inherit)]::
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