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authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-12-12 23:24:06 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-12-12 23:24:06 -0800
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Documentation: more examples.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@@ -50,10 +50,14 @@ the `Makefile` to two revisions back, deletes hello.c by
mistake, and gets it back from the index.
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-$ git checkout master
-$ git checkout master~2 Makefile
+$ git checkout master <1>
+$ git checkout master~2 Makefile <2>
$ rm -f hello.c
-$ git checkout hello.c
+$ 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.
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If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, the