Documentation: improve description of "git reset --keep"
authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tue, 9 Mar 2010 01:51:16 +0000 (02:51 +0100)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Tue, 9 Mar 2010 02:16:05 +0000 (18:16 -0800)
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git-reset.txt

index 58d9b4c062d6d6d09f10fd2fad1edabddd961d92..645f0c17485d35e6696be950fc61f5fdcf3dd14e 100644 (file)
@@ -53,9 +53,12 @@ OPTIONS
        and the current commit in the working tree.
 
 --keep::
-       Resets the index to match the tree recorded by the named commit,
-       but keep changes in the working tree. Aborts if the reset would
-       change files that are already modified in the working tree.
+       Reset the index to the given commit, keeping local changes in
+       the working tree since the current commit, while updating
+       working tree files without local changes to what appears in
+       the given commit.  If a file that is different between the
+       current commit and the given commit has local changes, reset
+       is aborted.
 
 -p::
 --patch::