From: Howard Miller Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:29:29 GMT Subject: Re: Mysterious junk in file.... "not commited yet" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: > Plain "git checkout" will read from the index, while "git checkout > HEAD" takes the last commited version. Cool.... that's the bit I hadn't appreciated. I was (falsely) under the impression that 'git checkout' grabbed the last committed version. Suitably educated... thanks!