commit 67d6b2d2de7d42b4820c5c3ad04a99e9c4fcd83f
from: Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name>
date: Tue Mar 13 02:25:33 2018 UTC

document checkout -p option

commit - 4129c201eca43b4c3e39b5dbc350d536735b61d4
commit + 67d6b2d2de7d42b4820c5c3ad04a99e9c4fcd83f
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@@ -67,6 +67,12 @@ The commands are as follows:
 .Bl -tag -width checkout
 .It Cm checkout
 Copy files from a repository into a new work tree.
+The work tree may be restricted to a subset of the repository's tree
+hierarchy by specifying the
+.Fl p Ar prefix
+option.
+In this case, only files beneath the specified directory prefix will
+be checked out.
 .\".It Cm status
 .\"Show current status of files.
 .It Cm log