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@@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ the conflicted merge in the specified paths.
This means that you can use `git checkout -p` to selectively discard
edits from your current working tree. See the ``Interactive Mode''
section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode.
++
+Note that this option uses the no overlay mode by default (see also
+`--[no-]overlay`), and currently doesn't support overlay mode.
--ignore-other-worktrees::
`git checkout` refuses when the wanted ref is already checked
@@ -280,6 +283,13 @@ section of linkgit:git-add[1] to learn how to operate the `--patch` mode.
Do not attempt to create a branch if a remote tracking branch
of the same name exists.
+--[no-]overlay::
+ In the default overlay mode, `git checkout` never
+ removes files from the index or the working tree. When
+ specifying `--no-overlay`, files that appear in the index and
+ working tree, but not in <tree-ish> are removed, to make them
+ match <tree-ish> exactly.
+
<branch>::
Branch to checkout; if it refers to a branch (i.e., a name that,
when prepended with "refs/heads/", is a valid ref), then that