Adjust to ls-tree --full-name when run from a subdirectory.

diff --git a/Documentation/git-branch.txt b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
index 98014f6d9bb23c90e9f4c8eb5e8b12313b522a58..d20b4757358d7927f114de4a816e912ba67553fc 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-branch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-branch.txt
@@ -32,6 +32,32 @@ start-point::
        Where to create the branch; defaults to HEAD. This
        option has no meaning with -d and -D.
 
+
+Examples
+~~~~~~~~
+
+Start development off of a know tag::
++
+------------
+$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/.../linux-2.6 my2.6
+$ cd my2.6
+$ git branch my2.6.14 v2.6.14 <1>
+$ git checkout my2.6.14
+
+<1> These two steps are the same as "checkout -b my2.6.14 v2.6.14".
+------------
+
+Delete unneeded branch::
++
+------------
+$ git clone git://git.kernel.org/.../git.git my.git
+$ cd my.git
+$ git branch -D todo <1>
+
+<1> delete todo branch even if the "master" branch does not have all
+commits from todo branch.
+------------
+
 Author
 ------
 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> and Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>