r.ductor wrote: > man git-chechout states: > > "Updates files in the working tree to match the version in the index > or the specified tree. If no paths are given, git checkout will > also update HEAD to set the specified branch as the current branch. > > git checkout [<branch>], git checkout -b <new branch> [<start point>] > This form switches branches by updating the index, working tree, > and HEAD to reflect the specified branch. " > > The key is the meaning of "to reflect": a normal (?) human being > like me understands that git checkout branch will reset the > contents of working directory, and index exactly equal to that of > the head of the branch. As you might know this is not true (see > example below). > > Please explain in the man page what checkout is exactly supposed to > do. Thanks.
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