6 git-checkout - Checkout and switch to a branch.
10 'git-checkout' [-f] [-b <new_branch>] [<branch>] [<paths>...]
15 When <paths> are not given, this command switches branches, by
16 updating the index and working tree to reflect the specified
17 branch, <branch>, and updating HEAD to be <branch> or, if
18 specified, <new_branch>.
20 When <paths> are given, this command does *not* switch
21 branches. It updates the named paths in the working tree from
22 the index file (i.e. it runs `git-checkout-index -f -u`). In
23 this case, `-f` and `-b` options are meaningless and giving
24 either of them results in an error. <branch> argument can be
25 used to specify a specific tree-ish to update the index for the
26 given paths before updating the working tree.
32 Force an re-read of everything.
35 Create a new branch and start it at <branch>.
38 Name for the new branch.
41 Branch to checkout; may be any object ID that resolves to a
42 commit. Defaults to HEAD.
48 The following sequence checks out the `master` branch, reverts
49 the `Makefile` to two revisions back, deletes hello.c by
50 mistake, and gets it back from the index.
54 $ git checkout master~2 Makefile
56 $ git checkout hello.c
59 If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, the
60 last step above would be confused as an instruction to switch to
61 that branch. You should instead write:
64 $ git checkout -- hello.c
70 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
74 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
78 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite