Re: [PATCH] git-checkout(1) mention fate of extraneous files

jidanni@jidanni.org, 17.01.2009:

Signed-off-by: jidanni <redacted>
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 Documentation/git-checkout.txt |   13 +++++++------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

-When <paths> are not given, this command switches branches by
-updating the index and working tree to reflect the specified
-branch, <branch>, and updating HEAD to be <branch> or, if
-specified, <new_branch>.  Using -b will cause <new_branch> to
-be created; in this case you can use the --track or --no-track
-options, which will be passed to `git branch`.
+When <paths> are not given, this command switches branches by updating
+the index and working tree to reflect the specified branch, <branch>,
+and updating HEAD to be <branch> or, if specified, <new_branch>. (No
+extraneous files present are deleted, use linkgit:git-clean[1] for a
+pristine checkout.) Using -b will cause <new_branch> to be created; in
+this case you can use the --track or --no-track options, which will be
+passed to `git branch`.

Why do you reformat the whole paragraph? Just inserting your sentence
would give a much nicer diff for easier review, it's no difference for
asciidoc. Indeed to find the change, I just copied the old and new text
into two Vim windows, reformatted and diffed them.

Then you would get this

  Documentation/git-checkout.txt |   2 ++
  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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