attr: avoid strlen() on every match

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 1063f69023f97357c747cf73f8a4bcc9d9a59c4b..7958a4700642270ad3f801e314cf870331cf4512 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
 'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [--detach] [<commit>]
 'git checkout' [-q] [-f] [-m] [[-b|-B|--orphan] <new_branch>] [<start_point>]
 'git checkout' [-f|--ours|--theirs|-m|--conflict=<style>] [<tree-ish>] [--] <paths>...
-'git checkout' --patch [<tree-ish>] [--] [<paths>...]
+'git checkout' [-p|--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] [<paths>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ $ git checkout <branch>
 that is to say, the branch is not reset/created unless "git checkout" is
 successful.
 
-'git checkout' [--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] <pathspec>...::
+'git checkout' [-p|--patch] [<tree-ish>] [--] <pathspec>...::
 
        When <paths> or `--patch` are given, 'git checkout' does *not*
        switch branches.  It updates the named paths in the working tree
@@ -84,11 +84,11 @@ entries; instead, unmerged entries are ignored.
        When checking out paths from the index, check out stage #2
        ('ours') or #3 ('theirs') for unmerged paths.
 
--b::
+-b <new_branch>::
        Create a new branch named <new_branch> and start it at
        <start_point>; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details.
 
--B::
+-B <new_branch>::
        Creates the branch <new_branch> and start it at <start_point>;
        if it already exists, then reset it to <start_point>. This is
        equivalent to running "git branch" with "-f"; see
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ explicitly give a name with '-b' in such a case.
        <commit> is not a branch name.  See the "DETACHED HEAD" section
        below for details.
 
---orphan::
+--orphan <new_branch>::
        Create a new 'orphan' branch, named <new_branch>, started from
        <start_point> and switch to it.  The first commit made on this
        new branch will have no parents and it will be the root of a new
@@ -183,7 +183,8 @@ the conflicted merge in the specified paths.
        working tree (and if a <tree-ish> was specified, the index).
 +
 This means that you can use `git checkout -p` to selectively discard
-edits from your current working tree.
+edits from your current working tree. See the ``Interactive Mode''
+section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode.
 
 <branch>::
        Branch to checkout; if it refers to a branch (i.e., a name that,
@@ -192,11 +193,11 @@ edits from your current working tree.
        commit, your HEAD becomes "detached" and you are no longer on
        any branch (see below for details).
 +
-As a special case, the `"@\{-N\}"` syntax for the N-th last branch
+As a special case, the `"@{-N}"` syntax for the N-th last branch
 checks out the branch (instead of detaching).  You may also specify
-`-` which is synonymous with `"@\{-1\}"`.
+`-` which is synonymous with `"@{-1}"`.
 +
-As a further special case, you may use `"A\...B"` as a shortcut for the
+As a further special case, you may use `"A...B"` as a shortcut for the
 merge base of `A` and `B` if there is exactly one merge base. You can
 leave out at most one of `A` and `B`, in which case it defaults to `HEAD`.
 
@@ -366,6 +367,18 @@ $ git checkout hello.c            <3>
 <2> take a file out of another commit
 <3> restore hello.c from the index
 +
+If you want to check out _all_ C source files out of the index,
+you can say
++
+------------
+$ git checkout -- '*.c'
+------------
++
+Note the quotes around `*.c`.  The file `hello.c` will also be
+checked out, even though it is no longer in the working tree,
+because the file globbing is used to match entries in the index
+(not in the working tree by the shell).
++
 If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, this
 step would be confused as an instruction to switch to that branch.
 You should instead write: