Git/checkout

About

The git checkout command allows you to switch branches. If you've got incomplete changes you want to set aside before switching branches, use git stash.

When you do a checkout, all the files in your working folder-tree are replaced by a snapshot of that tree as saved when you last committed to that branch.

If there are any uncommitted changes, git will warn you of this and refuse to do the checkout. You can either commit or stash to resolve this.

Options

• git checkout -b <name> does the same thing as executing these two commands:
  • git branch <name> creates a new branch called "name", pointing at the current HEAD revision
  • git checkout <name> moves HEAD to point to the branch called "name"

Links

Reference

• manpage @ HTYP
• git-scm - Switch branches or restore working tree files