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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”







Now the head pointer points to the latest commit.






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




4. Commit the changes using the commit command

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







Now the head pointer points to latest commit.






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

Git checkout bee90c23632f82095b8d3b831bf8266a32e1cbe1

Git checkout 95a6eeca9b742ba406ca611eac6bf6a30e98b4ef