From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:08:36 GMT
Subject: checkout vs reset
Message-ID: <76718490902252308r474b193yba21b14e14a3baa@mail.gmail.com>

Is there any different between the following two commands?

git reset <commit> -- <paths>...
git checkout <commit> -- <paths>...

As far as I can tell from the man pages, they are equivalent. To wit:
both update the index and working copy for the given paths to the
state that they were in in <commit>.

j.