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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 - Having trouble with checkout to branch

I have a problem when I try to checkout to a branch. Im getting the error: Please, commit your changes or stash them before you can switch branches. error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout: …
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Make commits in detached head state, how do I apply them to a branch?

I did a git checkout and made some changes while in the detached head state. I commited the changes. How do I apply these changes to a specific branch? Can I checkout that branch and then do a git merge? Thanks in advance for the help!
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How to unstage github changes (reset --hard, checkout both failing)

I've run into a problem wherein i cannot "back out" of a branch which I've started merging. The branch is behind master By checking out the branch, there are several files left from my last branch (master) that have been committed, but appear to…
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git checkout overload

TL;DR I can't revert a file with git checkout if a branch has the same name. I was working on my GIT repository when found a funny problem. We've a branch called "build-upload" where we are creating a new "upload" feature. We also have a file…
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git check out error pathspec

I'm new in git and ruby on rails, i'm trying to recover an other day work with git, so I type "git log" and i can see my "commits" for the repository in my application directory: commit 016a8807427c46087762b56e1ea02abc Author: Antonio Date: Mon…
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No checkout because of gitignore

I have a project under git. In my gitignore file, I have a folder folder/ I don't want git to care about. The problem, is each time I want to checkout a branch , I am asked to error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by…
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Remove files from a Git branch that is not checked out?

Is it possible to remove files from a Git repository branch, while another branch is checked out? I'd like to do this in order to resolve some conflicts with files that are .gitignore'd in the checked out branch but still in the repository for a…
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Does 'svn update' include the history of the repository?

I'm comparing SVN and Git. I know 'svn checkout' is the same as 'git clone' in that both include the history of the original repository. In Git, once 'git clone' is done, I don't need to 'git clone' any more to get the history of the original…
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Error in checkout a remote server in Git

I have cloned a remote Git server. but when I want to checkout it with the below code it give me error: $ git checkout master origin/master error: pathspec 'origin/master' did not match any file(s) known to git. Here's output of git branch: $ git…
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Xcode doesn't forget deleted files after a Git checkout of an older commit

I've got Xcode (4.5) running a project stored in a git repository. In theory, I should be able to git checkout different versions of the code (from the command line) to see how things looked at various points in time. In practice, Xcode doesn't…
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How do I set git up to keep my files in sync?

I'm having a problem with getting my Git repository to function the way that I want it to. I'm sure it can do what I want, but I'm just not figuring it out on my own. Here's my setup... PC1: This is my dev machine where I created the repository,…
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Git: How to checkout all committed .css files in specific directory?

I added and deleted a bunch of files in /webroot/modules/mod_menu and I want to get all my .css files back from my last commit. Unfortunately, I've deleted them and I don't remember their names. If I try to do git checkout HEAD^…
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Git push to a remote with files already there

I would like to start using git on a website that already has a lot of content on it (like tens of GB of videos and photos). I have all the source codes (PHP, HTML etc.) stored locally on my computer. I like this solution for git deployment but I'm…
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Capistrano and git checkout

I am getting the following error when I do a cap deploy, which checks out of a git master repository: Could anyone please help me? Thanks in advance /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/capistrano-2.5.8/lib/capistrano/configuration/servers.rb:78:in…
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Git site deployment - checkout in post-receive hook not working

I've followed this tutorial 'Using Git to manage a web site', using Tower to commit and push my local repo to the remote server. Pushing succeeds with the following message: Pushing to ssh://user@mysite.com/~/git/tprevo.git stdin: is not a…
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