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Checkout Operation In GIT

What Does Checkout Mean?

Example

1. Create an empty text file ‘1.txt’.
2. Add ‘1.txt’ in git repository using the following command

Git  add 1.txt
Git commit  1.txt -m “Committing 1.txt”





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Now the head pointer points to the latest commit.



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3. Modify “1.txt” and add following text

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4. Commit the changes using the commit command

Git commit 1.txt -m “Commit 1.txt 2nd time”





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Now the head pointer points to latest commit.



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5. If we want to switch to previous commit then we can use checkout command

Git checkout f25908abe8eec7fa4e417573e0d603217b392a78

Git checkout 95a6eeca9b742ba406ca611eac6bf6a30e98b4ef