Say when --track is useful in the git-checkout docs.

diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index 7df01af78805686572e32d5ade1460fc925a9a71..2d727d54dc43c23cb2fe19369d58e57e2a020ca9 100644 (file)
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ static int get_sha1_basic(const char *str, int len, unsigned char *sha1)
                                fprintf(stderr,
                                        "warning: Log for '%.*s' only goes "
                                        "back to %s.\n", len, str,
-                                       show_rfc2822_date(co_time, co_tz));
+                                       show_date(co_time, co_tz, DATE_RFC2822));
                        else
                                fprintf(stderr,
                                        "warning: Log for '%.*s' only has "
@@ -682,8 +682,6 @@ int get_sha1_with_mode(const char *name, unsigned char *sha1, unsigned *mode)
                namelen = namelen - (cp - name);
                if (!active_cache)
                        read_cache();
-               if (active_nr < 0)
-                       return -1;
                pos = cache_name_pos(cp, namelen);
                if (pos < 0)
                        pos = -pos - 1;