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Re: git checkout -

From
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 4, 2020, 00:48 UTC
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Hi,
François WAUQUIER wrote:
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> $ git checkout -
>
> I often use this command to go back to previous branch from my history.
> It is quite natural as it uses the same syntax as “cd -“
>
> But i found out it is not documented in
> https://git-scm.com/docs/git-checkout/2.24.0
> I report this to help others to discover this time saving command.
Thanks for reporting!

Ideas for what the documentation should say about it? (Bonus points if it comes in the form of a patch against Documentation/git-checkout.txt. ;-) See [1] for more about how that works.)

Sincerely, Jonathan

[1] https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/SubmittingPatches.html
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