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		layoutIfNeeded on Aug 1, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New in Git: switch and restore Exactly. The way I see it is that “checkout” has two arguments: - the commit you want to checkout, which defaults to HEAD - the files you want to checkout, which defaults to everything Simple as.

Denvercoder9 on Aug 2, 2021 [–]

The problem is that this breaks down when you specify both arguments. Doing `git checkout branch file` checks out file from branch to the working tree, but doesn't change HEAD.

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