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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 6 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index d5041082e8..7540e026f5 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-checkout(1) NAME ---- -git-checkout - Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree +git-checkout - Switch branches or restore working tree files SYNOPSIS -------- @@ -89,6 +89,10 @@ Omitting <branch> detaches HEAD at the tip of the current branch. (i.e. commit, tag or tree) to update the index for the given paths before updating the working tree. + +'git checkout' with <paths> or `--patch` is used to restore modified or +deleted paths to their original contents from the index or replace paths +with the contents from a named <tree-ish> (most often a commit-ish). ++ The index may contain unmerged entries because of a previous failed merge. By default, if you try to check out such an entry from the index, the checkout operation will fail and nothing will be checked out. |