man git-checkout (Commandes) - Checkout and switch to a branch.

NAME

git-checkout - Checkout and switch to a branch.

SYNOPSIS

git-checkout [-f] [-b <new_branch>] [<branch>] [<paths>...]

DESCRIPTION

When <paths> are not given, this command switches branches, by updating the index and working tree to reflect the specified branch, <branch>, and updating HEAD to be <branch> or, if specified, <new_branch>.

When <paths> are given, this command does not switch branches. It updates the named paths in the working tree from the index file (i.e. it runs git-checkout-index -f -u). In this case, -f and -b options are meaningless and giving either of them results in an error. <branch> argument can be used to specify a specific tree-ish to update the index for the given paths before updating the working tree.

OPTIONS

-f
Force an re-read of everything.
-b
Create a new branch and start it at <branch>.
<new_branch>
Name for the new branch.
<branch>
Branch to checkout; may be any object ID that resolves to a commit. Defaults to HEAD.

EXAMPLE

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 $ git checkout master~2 Makefile $ rm -f hello.c $ git checkout hello.c

switch branch take out a file out of other commit or "git checkout -- hello.c", as in the next example.

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:

$ git checkout -- hello.c

AUTHOR

Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

DOCUMENTATION

Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.

GIT

Part of the git(7) suite