Merge branch 'jc/maint-do-not-switch-to-non-commit'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 82e154de4970c1c2cb35335591cfe457e80a89c1..9cd51514dbfd987db4423e254e8bab7284352525 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ the first namespace level.
 
 When <paths> are given, this command does *not* switch
 branches.  It updates the named paths in the working tree from
-the index file, or from a named commit.  In
+the index file, or from a named <tree-ish> (most often a commit).  In
 this case, the `-b` options is meaningless and giving
 either of them results in an error.  <tree-ish> argument can be
 used to specify a specific tree-ish (i.e. commit, tag or tree)
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ This would tell us to use "hack" as the local branch when branching
 off of "origin/hack" (or "remotes/origin/hack", or even
 "refs/remotes/origin/hack").  If the given name has no slash, or the above
 guessing results in an empty name, the guessing is aborted.  You can
-exlicitly give a name with '-b' in such a case.
+explicitly give a name with '-b' in such a case.
 
 --no-track::
        Ignore the branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable.
@@ -232,7 +232,6 @@ the `-m` option, you would see something like this:
 ------------
 $ git checkout -m mytopic
 Auto-merging frotz
-merge: warning: conflicts during merge
 ERROR: Merge conflict in frotz
 fatal: merge program failed
 ------------