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authorJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2006-04-29 07:02:01 +0000
committerJunio C Hamano <junio@hera.kernel.org>2006-04-29 07:02:01 +0000
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@@ -66,19 +66,19 @@ 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>
+$ git checkout master <1>
+$ git checkout master~2 Makefile <2>
$ rm -f hello.c
-$ git checkout hello.c <3>
-
+$ git checkout hello.c <3>
+------------
++
<1> switch branch
<2> take out a file out of other commit
-<3> or "git checkout -- hello.c", as in the next example.
-------------
+<3> restore hello.c from HEAD of current branch
+
-If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, the
-last step above would be confused as an instruction to switch to
-that branch. You should instead write:
+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