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git-checkout.txt: fix incorrect statement about HEAD and index

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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@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Matthieu Moy 2009-04-06 22:45:21 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
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Documentation/git-checkout.txt
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@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ $ git checkout hello.c <3>
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<1> switch branch
<2> take out a file out of other commit
<3> restore hello.c from HEAD of current branch
<2> take a file out of another commit
<3> restore hello.c from the index
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If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, this
step would be confused as an instruction to switch to that branch.