Documentation: A...B shortcut for checkout and rebase

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-checkout.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
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--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -136,6 +136,10 @@ edits from your current working tree.
 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\}"`.
++
+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`.
 
 <new_branch>::
        Name for the new branch.