Merge branch 'sg/completion-commit-cleanup' into maint

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 33ad2adf5ce86119e55f94fa1d29233e8caf4a67..7540e026f5ad16c3e88437d0d50b8fabd88885a4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-checkout(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-checkout - Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree
+git-checkout - Switch branches or restore working tree files
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
@@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ Omitting <branch> detaches HEAD at the tip of the current branch.
        (i.e.  commit, tag or tree) to update the index for the given
        paths before updating the working tree.
 +
+'git checkout' with <paths> or `--patch` is used to restore modified or
+deleted paths to their original contents from the index or replace paths
+with the contents from a named <tree-ish> (most often a commit-ish).
++
 The index may contain unmerged entries because of a previous failed merge.
 By default, if you try to check out such an entry from the index, the
 checkout operation will fail and nothing will be checked out.
@@ -144,7 +148,7 @@ explicitly give a name with '-b' in such a case.
 
 --no-track::
        Do not set up "upstream" configuration, even if the
-       branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable is true.
+       branch.autoSetupMerge configuration variable is true.
 
 -l::
        Create the new branch's reflog; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for
@@ -210,7 +214,7 @@ the conflicted merge in the specified paths.
 --conflict=<style>::
        The same as --merge option above, but changes the way the
        conflicting hunks are presented, overriding the
-       merge.conflictstyle configuration variable.  Possible values are
+       merge.conflictStyle configuration variable.  Possible values are
        "merge" (default) and "diff3" (in addition to what is shown by
        "merge" style, shows the original contents).