The command "git checkout" checks out from the index by default, not HEAD (the introducing comment were correct, but the detailled explanation added below were not). Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-checkout.txt | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt index 1a6c19e..0b5485b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ $ git checkout hello.c <3> + <1> switch branch <2> take a file out of another commit -<3> restore hello.c from HEAD of current branch +<3> restore hello.c from the index + If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, this step would be confused as an instruction to switch to that branch. -- 1.6.2.1.427.g061ea -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html