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doc: git-checkout: deduplicate --detach explanation
authorJulia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:14:27 +0000 (19:14 +0000)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:32:04 +0000 (14:32 -0700)
commit0dd71f607c2b16e56b72a1e86262eb2b9e52e343
treed654c99858be47514add3b7d9a311caf7cfc5d48
parent042d6f3402126d01a0484e83da0a4f0d3ac037ab
doc: git-checkout: deduplicate --detach explanation

From user feedback: several users say they don't understand the use case
for `--detach`. It's probably not realistic to explain the use case for
detached HEAD state here, but we can improve the situation.

Explain how `git checkout --detach` is different from
`git checkout <branch>` instead of copying over the description from
`git checkout <branch>`, since `git checkout <branch>` will be a
familiar command to many readers.

Signed-off-by: Julia Evans <julia@jvns.ca>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git-checkout.adoc