Is Git checkout dead?

Anand Tripathi
Pythonistas
Published in
4 min readOct 31, 2022

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Many of you know about this git god command which is used in most cases i.e.

git checkout <file_name/commit/branch/new_branch>

So you can see that one single `git checkout` command is overloaded with four different functions. If you want to revise all the functions let’s check them out quickly.

1. git checkout <branch_name>

Anand Tripathi
Pythonistas