Merge branch 'sg/asciidoctor-in-ci'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 3ea4579736adbe377454bde0f210e7ee9d5a9b16..877e5f503a66145912886c14917f0e68512e6284 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -262,6 +262,9 @@ When switching branches with `--merge`, staged changes may be lost.
 This means that you can use `git checkout -p` to selectively discard
 edits from your current working tree. See the ``Interactive Mode''
 section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode.
++
+Note that this option uses the no overlay mode by default (see also
+`--[no-]overlay`), and currently doesn't support overlay mode.
 
 --ignore-other-worktrees::
        `git checkout` refuses when the wanted ref is already checked
@@ -282,6 +285,13 @@ section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode.
        Do not attempt to create a branch if a remote tracking branch
        of the same name exists.
 
+--[no-]overlay::
+       In the default overlay mode, `git checkout` never
+       removes files from the index or the working tree.  When
+       specifying `--no-overlay`, files that appear in the index and
+       working tree, but not in <tree-ish> are removed, to make them
+       match <tree-ish> exactly.
+
 <branch>::
        Branch to checkout; if it refers to a branch (i.e., a name that,
        when prepended with "refs/heads/", is a valid ref), then that