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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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Git continue from a commit id

I try to learn git. I make some mistakes in my master and only branch. I checkout to a previous commit, not the last one. I want to continue from that point. What is the correct way to do that?
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Git Remove One Step in a File's History

I have seen many related discussions, but not an exact resolution to my particular problem. I want to remove one step in the history for a specific file. So for example, I add a file "Foo.txt". I commit my changes. Then I modify a bunch of files. I…
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How to pull and push sub directory in Git

My requirement is to pull and push files only for particular folder from the master repo. The method I am using is only helping me in pulling files for particular folder but not in pushing. So in my master repo I have folder structure something…
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How to checkout a single file from a local git repository?

I have a local git repository, and I need to do the equivalent of a TFS 'Undo Pending Changes'. There is no remote repository. There are no branches, just Master. I have tried nearly every suggestion from questions "How to checkout only one file…
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Get changes from one branch into another one in git and how can I work on my own branch

I'm a little lost with git, It's the first I use git with other people. What I want to do is bring the changes that were made in a branch to the branch in which I am working, let's say that when I execute git branch --all what I see is this: …
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Undo all files within a folder in git

I searched and found many link which talks about un-doing your uncommited changes with respect to specific file: git reset git reset --hard git checkout -- file git checkout branchname^ filename but I want to undo changes for all the files I…
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Intellij checkout from github

I am using Intellij Idea Ultimate edition 14.0.3. my Git plugin tests successfully but when I create a new workspace and try to checkout my project using Github it gives me an error - Service unavailable I have tried using both Auth Types -…
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Git automatic fetch periodically/on branch checkout

I would like some automated method to do a fetch from our remote origin server. So perhaps every time I switch branches git would automatically do a fetch on all branches from origin before the switch... this way when I move from a local "fix…
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Finding hash for git checkout

I am working through the git immersion tutorial. We are up to checking out a branch. The instructions say to type the following $ git checkout $ cat hello.rb It says that the command depends on the has values in the repo and my hash…
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git how to checkout to a commit make some changes and push it back to master

So I have many commits in the master branch. I want to roll back to a commit and make some changes in one file. It's simply to do with checkout command. So what were my steps. 1. I've checkout new branch from master git checkout -b new_branch 2.…
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GIT: How to checkout file to head, even if the file was removed?

I want to create script, which would: restore file to revision when my changes was (I know the revision and changed files from git log --name-status), copy file, restore the file to HEAD. So I do: git checkout (hash with my changes) file.x cp…
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Tell git to always pull the remote version of a file in case of conflict

I want to tell git that in case of conflict on a merge on a specific file he has to always use the remote version of the file. The only thing I found was how to always keep the local version of the file: How do I tell git to always select my local…
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Git switching branches issue

I am relatively new to using Git and I am having some issues switching branches. I have two branches: main and experiment. In both branches, I have a file called "admin.html". I changed its name to "admin1.html" while in my main branch. I then I…
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Checked out an old branch and work is gone

This is exactly what I did: I did a lot of work on branch new-feature. I added and committed it git add . git commit -m "did lots of work" I checked out main git checkout main I merged new-feature into main git merge --no-ff new-feature I…
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Built-in command to checkout a specific Subversion revision which doesn't use the 'rNNNNN' format from a Git mirror?

I am compiling from a local Git mirror of a Subversion repository and I need to checkout out particular commits from the Subversion revision number from the mirror. The git log displays something like this: and by locating the git-svn-id: xxxx …
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