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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-checkout.txt4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 5aa69c0e12..883047982a 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ $ git checkout hello.c <3>
------------
+
<1> switch branch
-<2> take out a file out of other commit
-<3> restore hello.c from HEAD of current branch
+<2> take a file out of another commit
+<3> restore hello.c from the index
+
If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, this
step would be confused as an instruction to switch to that branch.