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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2023-04-27 16:23:22 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2023-04-27 16:23:22 -0700
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@@ -483,14 +483,11 @@ $ git checkout -b foo # or "git switch -c foo" <1>
$ git branch foo <2>
$ git tag foo <3>
------------
-
<1> creates a new branch `foo`, which refers to commit `f`, and then
updates `HEAD` to refer to branch `foo`. In other words, we'll no longer
be in detached `HEAD` state after this command.
-
<2> similarly creates a new branch `foo`, which refers to commit `f`,
but leaves `HEAD` detached.
-
<3> creates a new tag `foo`, which refers to commit `f`,
leaving `HEAD` detached.
@@ -519,84 +516,89 @@ to checkout these paths out of the index.
EXAMPLES
--------
-. The following sequence checks out the `master` branch, reverts
- the `Makefile` to two revisions back, deletes `hello.c` by
- mistake, and gets it back from the index.
-+
+=== 1. Paths
+
+The following sequence checks out the `master` branch, reverts
+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>
$ rm -f hello.c
$ git checkout hello.c <3>
------------
-+
<1> switch branch
<2> take a file out of another commit
<3> restore `hello.c` from the index
-+
+
If you want to check out _all_ C source files out of the index,
you can say
-+
+
------------
$ git checkout -- '*.c'
------------
-+
+
Note the quotes around `*.c`. The file `hello.c` will also be
checked out, even though it is no longer in the working tree,
because the file globbing is used to match entries in the index
(not in the working tree by the shell).
-+
+
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
------------
-. After working in the wrong branch, switching to the correct
- branch would be done using:
-+
+=== 2. Merge
+
+After working in the wrong branch, switching to the correct
+branch would be done using:
+
------------
$ git checkout mytopic
------------
-+
+
However, your "wrong" branch and correct `mytopic` branch may
differ in files that you have modified locally, in which case
the above checkout would fail like this:
-+
+
------------
$ git checkout mytopic
error: You have local changes to 'frotz'; not switching branches.
------------
-+
+
You can give the `-m` flag to the command, which would try a
three-way merge:
-+
+
------------
$ git checkout -m mytopic
Auto-merging frotz
------------
-+
+
After this three-way merge, the local modifications are _not_
registered in your index file, so `git diff` would show you what
changes you made since the tip of the new branch.
-. When a merge conflict happens during switching branches with
- the `-m` option, you would see something like this:
-+
+=== 3. Merge conflict
+
+When a merge conflict happens during switching branches with
+the `-m` option, you would see something like this:
+
------------
$ git checkout -m mytopic
Auto-merging frotz
ERROR: Merge conflict in frotz
fatal: merge program failed
------------
-+
+
At this point, `git diff` shows the changes cleanly merged as in
the previous example, as well as the changes in the conflicted
files. Edit and resolve the conflict and mark it resolved with
`git add` as usual:
-+
+
------------
$ edit frotz
$ git add frotz