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doc: "git checkout -b/-B/--orphan" always takes a branch name
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While the synopsis section makes it clear that the new branch name
is the parameter to these flags, the option description did not.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Junio C Hamano committed Aug 26, 2012
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When checking out paths from the index, check out stage #2
('ours') or #3 ('theirs') for unmerged paths.

-b::
-b <new_branch>::
Create a new branch named <new_branch> and start it at
<start_point>; see linkgit:git-branch[1] for details.

-B::
-B <new_branch>::
Creates the branch <new_branch> and start it at <start_point>;
if it already exists, then reset it to <start_point>. This is
equivalent to running "git branch" with "-f"; see
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<commit> is not a branch name. See the "DETACHED HEAD" section
below for details.

--orphan::
--orphan <new_branch>::
Create a new 'orphan' branch, named <new_branch>, started from
<start_point> and switch to it. The first commit made on this
new branch will have no parents and it will be the root of a new
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