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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-05-28 22:34:34 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-05-28 22:34:34 -0700
commit7d55561986ffe94ca7ca22dc0a6846f698893226 (patch)
tree220ecd5d179f5b12f0f5aa0bb511faac0699aa0d /Documentation/git-checkout.txt
parentgit-write-tree writes garbage on sparc64 (diff)
parentbuiltin-rm: squelch compiler warnings. (diff)
downloadtgif-7d55561986ffe94ca7ca22dc0a6846f698893226.tar.xz
Merge branch 'jc/dirwalk-n-cache-tree' into jc/cache-tree
* jc/dirwalk-n-cache-tree: (212 commits) builtin-rm: squelch compiler warnings. Add builtin "git rm" command Move pathspec matching from builtin-add.c into dir.c Prevent bogus paths from being added to the index. builtin-add: fix unmatched pathspec warnings. Remove old "git-add.sh" remnants builtin-add: warn on unmatched pathspecs Do "git add" as a builtin Clean up git-ls-file directory walking library interface libify git-ls-files directory traversal Add a conversion tool to migrate remote information into the config fetch, pull: ask config for remote information Fix build procedure for builtin-init-db read-tree -m -u: do not overwrite or remove untracked working tree files. apply --cached: do not check newly added file in the working tree Implement a --dry-run option to git-quiltimport Implement git-quiltimport Revert "builtin-grep: workaround for non GNU grep." builtin-grep: workaround for non GNU grep. builtin-grep: workaround for non GNU grep. ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 985bb2f827..095128906a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -66,19 +66,19 @@ the `Makefile` to two revisions back, deletes hello.c by
mistake, and gets it back from the index.
+
------------
-$ git checkout master <1>
-$ git checkout master~2 Makefile <2>
+$ git checkout master <1>
+$ git checkout master~2 Makefile <2>
$ rm -f hello.c
-$ git checkout hello.c <3>
-
+$ git checkout hello.c <3>
+------------
++
<1> switch branch
<2> take out a file out of other commit
-<3> or "git checkout -- hello.c", as in the next example.
-------------
+<3> restore hello.c from HEAD of current branch
+
-If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, the
-last step above would be confused as an instruction to switch to
-that branch. You should instead write:
+If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, this
+step would be confused as an instruction to switch to that branch.
+You should instead write:
+
------------
$ git checkout -- hello.c