'\" t .\" Title: git-checkout .\" Author: [FIXME: author] [see http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/author] .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets vsnapshot .\" Date: 2025-06-15 .\" Manual: Git Manual .\" Source: Git 2.50.1 .\" Language: English .\" .TH "GIT\-CHECKOUT" "1" "2025\-06\-15" "Git 2\&.50\&.1" "Git Manual" .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * Define some portability stuff .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 .\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html .\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * set default formatting .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" disable hyphenation .nh .\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) .ad l .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .SH "NAME" git-checkout \- Switch branches or restore working tree files .SH "SYNOPSIS" .sp .nf \fBgit\fR \fBcheckout\fR [\fB\-q\fR] [\fB\-f\fR] [\fB\-m\fR] [\fI\fR] \fBgit\fR \fBcheckout\fR [\fB\-q\fR] [\fB\-f\fR] [\fB\-m\fR] \fB\-\-detach\fR [\fI\fR] \fBgit\fR \fBcheckout\fR [\fB\-q\fR] [\fB\-f\fR] [\fB\-m\fR] [\fB\-\-detach\fR] \fI\fR \fBgit\fR \fBcheckout\fR [\fB\-q\fR] [\fB\-f\fR] [\fB\-m\fR] [[\fB\-b\fR|\fB\-B\fR|\fB\-\-orphan\fR] \fI\fR] [\fI\fR] \fBgit\fR \fBcheckout\fR [\fB\-f\fR] \fI\fR [\fB\-\-\fR] \fI\fR\&... \fBgit\fR \fBcheckout\fR [\fB\-f\fR] \fI\fR \fB\-\-pathspec\-from\-file=\fR\fI\fR [\fB\-\-pathspec\-file\-nul\fR] \fBgit\fR \fBcheckout\fR [\fB\-f\fR|\fB\-\-ours\fR|\fB\-\-theirs\fR|\fB\-m\fR|\fB\-\-conflict=\fR\fI