Using "-b --track newbranch oldbranch" gives the error:
git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching
branches/forcing
However, "--track -b ..." works just fine.
Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <redacted>
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Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 4f2e847..918d8ee 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-checkout - Checkout and switch to a branch
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-checkout' [-q] [-f] [-b [--track | --no-track] <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>]
+'git-checkout' [-q] [-f] [[--track | --no-track] -b <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>]
'git-checkout' [<tree-ish>] <paths>...
DESCRIPTION
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