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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>
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Junio C Hamano 2023-01-19 09:12:41 -08:00
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@ -146,14 +146,16 @@ on your side branch as `theirs` (i.e. "one contributor's work on top
of it"). of it").


-b <new-branch>:: -b <new-branch>::
Create a new branch named `<new-branch>` and start it at Create a new branch named `<new-branch>`, start it at
`<start-point>`; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. `<start-point>`, and check the resulting branch out;
see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details.


-B <new-branch>:: -B <new-branch>::
Creates the branch `<new-branch>` and start it at `<start-point>`; Creates the branch `<new-branch>`, start it at `<start-point>`;
if it already exists, then reset it to `<start-point>`. This is if it already exists, then reset it to `<start-point>`. And then
equivalent to running "git branch" with "-f"; see check the resulting branch out. This is equivalent to running
linkgit:git-branch[1] for details. "git branch" with "-f" followed by "git checkout" of that branch;
see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details.


-t:: -t::
--track[=(direct|inherit)]:: --track[=(direct|inherit)]::