Merge branch 'jc/maint-doc-checkout-b-always-takes-branch-name' into maint-1.7.11

The synopsis said "checkout [-B branch]" to make it clear the
branch name is a parameter to the option, but the heading for the
option description was "-B::", not "-B branch::", making the
documentation misleading.

* jc/maint-doc-checkout-b-always-takes-branch-name:
doc: "git checkout -b/-B/--orphan" always takes a branch name

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 63a251612ab9a25b798c8cdbb3a69e8a76241e36..11cc7f0588d4e3a3827bf9cf8990edc5ab0da8b0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -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