Re: On the behavior of checkout with uncommitted local changes

Dear Juno Thanks for your answer. My fair criticism in my previous emails (and below) is just to try to convince you that with a few short sentences you risk to transmit only vague ideas, while a serious user is interested to understand the behavior of git in any occurrence, with no ambiguity.

Re: On the behavior of checkout with uncommitted local changes

Dear Junio, thanks for your answer and you availability to revise the man text. Below my (irreverent) comments On Thursday 19 September 2013 10:43:16 Junio C Hamano wrote: > Let's see how we can improve the text. Points to notice are: > > * "by updating the index and the files" does not say "

On the behavior of checkout with uncommitted local changes

Dear all I'm not a power git user but I profit of git every day and I like to fully understand what I do. The man section for git checkout is too vague for my taste. In particular it is not clearly (unambiguously) stated what happens to index and worktree whenever local uncommitted changes are