From 76ce946294bd17f350c7c0a3927d8986b73ed480 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:06:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/git-checkout: Update summary to reflect current
 abilities

For a while now, git-checkout has been more powerful than the man-page
summary would suggest (the main text does describe the new features),
so update the summary to hopefully better reflect the current
functionality.  Also update the glossary description of the word checkout.

Signed-off-by: Julian Phillips <julian@quantumfyre.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 2 +-
 Documentation/glossary.txt     | 9 ++++++---
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 4014e7256d..e11cddbfc9 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-checkout(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-checkout - Checkout and switch to a branch
+git-checkout - Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
diff --git a/Documentation/glossary.txt b/Documentation/glossary.txt
index ab4caf4e26..51b63532b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/glossary.txt
+++ b/Documentation/glossary.txt
@@ -45,9 +45,12 @@ GIT Glossary
 	"changesets" with git.
 
 [[def_checkout]]checkout::
-	The action of updating the <<def_working_tree,working tree>> to a
-	<<def_revision,revision>> which was stored in the
-	<<def_object_database,object database>>.
+	The action of updating all or part of the
+	<<def_working_tree,working tree>> with a <<def_tree_object,tree object>>
+	or <<def_blob_object,blob>> from the
+	<<def_object_database,object database>>, and updating the
+	<<def_index,index>> and <<def_HEAD,HEAD>> if the whole working tree has
+	been pointed at a new <<def_branch,branch>>.
 
 [[def_cherry-picking]]cherry-picking::
 	In <<def_SCM,SCM>> jargon, "cherry pick" means to choose a subset of
-- 
2.11.4.GIT