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SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-checkout' [-f] [-b <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>]
+'git-checkout' [-q] [-f] [-b <new_branch> [-l]] [-m] [<branch>]
'git-checkout' [<tree-ish>] <paths>...
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
-------
+-q::
+ Quiet, supress feedback messages.
+
-f::
Force a re-read of everything.
What this means is that you can discard your temporary commits
and merges by switching back to an existing branch (e.g. `git
checkout master`), and a later `git prune` or `git gc` would
-garbage-collect them.
-
-The command would refuse to switch back to make sure that you do
-not discard your temporary state by mistake when your detached
-HEAD is not pointed at by any existing ref. If you did want to
-save your state (e.g. "I was interested in the fifth commit from
-the top of 'master' branch", or "I made two commits to fix minor
-bugs while on a detached HEAD" -- and if you do not want to lose
-these facts), you can create a new branch and switch to it with
-`git checkout -b newbranch` so that you can keep building on
-that state, or tag it first so that you can come back to it
-later and switch to the branch you wanted to switch to with `git
-tag that_state; git checkout master`. On the other hand, if you
-did want to discard the temporary state, you can give `-f`
-option (e.g. `git checkout -f master`) to override this
-behaviour.
+garbage-collect them. If you did this by mistake, you can ask
+the reflog for HEAD where you were, e.g.
+
+------------
+$ git log -g -2 HEAD
+------------
EXAMPLES