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Checkout a branch or file to the current working tree in a Git repo.

git checkout is used to update files in the current working tree to a specific version in the index or specified branch.

To restore a file to the version in the index:

git checkout -- <filename>

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$ git checkout --help
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How do I revert a Git repository to a previous commit?

How do I revert from my current state to a snapshot made on a certain commit? If I do git log, then I get the following output: $ git log commit a867b4af366350be2e7c21b8de9cc6504678a61b` Author: Me Date: Thu Nov 4 18:59:41 2010…
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How do I check out a remote Git branch?

Somebody pushed a branch called test with git push origin test to a shared repository. I can see the branch with git branch -r. Now I'm trying to check out the remote test branch. I've tried: git checkout test which does nothing git checkout…
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How can I reset or revert a file to a specific revision?

I have made some changes to a file which has been committed a few times as part of a group of files, but now want to reset/revert the changes on it back to a previous version. I have done a git log along with a git diff to find the revision I need,…
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How to find and restore a deleted file in a Git repository

Say I'm in a Git repository. I delete a file and commit that change. I continue working and make some more commits. Then, I find I need to restore that file. I know I can checkout a file using git checkout HEAD^ foo.bar, but I don't really know when…
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How do I revert all local changes in Git managed project to previous state?

I have a project in which I ran git init. After several commits, I did git status which told me everything was up to date and there were no local changes. Then I made several consecutive changes and realized I wanted to throw everything away and…
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How to get just one file from another branch

I am using git and working on master branch. This branch has a file called app.js. I have an experiment branch in which I made a bunch of changes and tons of commits. Now I want to bring all the changes done only to app.js from experiment to master…
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Rollback to an old Git commit in a public repo

How can I go about rolling back to a specific commit in git? The best answer someone could give me was to use git revert X times until I reach the desired commit. So let's say I want to revert back to a commit that's 20 commits old, I'd have to…
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Is there any way to git checkout previous branch?

I sort of want the equivalent of cd - for git. If I am in branch master and I checkout foo, I would love to be able to type something like git checkout - to go back to master, and be able to type it again to return to foo. Does anything like this…
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Merge, update, and pull Git branches without using checkouts

I work on a project that has 2 branches, A and B. I typically work on branch A, and merge stuff from branch B. For the merging, I would typically do: git merge origin/branchB However, I would also like to keep a local copy of branch B, as I may…
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What is git tag, How to create tags & How to checkout git remote tag(s)

when I checkout remote git tag use command like this: git checkout -b local_branch_name origin/remote_tag_name I got error like this: error: pathspec `origin/remote_tag_name` did not match any file(s) known to git. I can find remote_tag_name when…
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Unstage a deleted file in git

Usually, to discard changes to a file you would do: git checkout -- What if the change I want to discard is deleting the file? The above line would give an error: error: pathspec '' did not match any file(s) known to git. What command…
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How to get the latest tag name in current branch in Git?

What's the simplest way to get the most recent tag in Git? git tag a HEAD git tag b HEAD^^ git tag c HEAD^ git tag output: a b c Should I write a script to get each tag's datetime and compare them?
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How to sparsely checkout only one single file from a git repository?

How do I checkout just one file from a git repo?
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What's the difference between "git reset" and "git checkout"?

I've always thought of git reset and git checkout as the same, in the sense that both bring the project back to a specific commit. However, I feel they can't be exactly the same, as that would be redundant. What is the actual difference between the…
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Git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with switching branches

My problem is related to Fatal Git error when switching branch. I try to fetch a remote branch with the command git checkout -b local-name origin/remote-name but I get this error message: fatal: git checkout: updating paths is incompatible with…
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