checkout vs reset

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.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:

Doh, answering my own question. reset only touches the index, not the working copy. checkout updates both.

j.

On 2009-02-26, Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com> wrote:

However, if the <commit> doesn't even _have_ the <path> in question, it leaves the index alone (doesn't remove it, for instance):

Using HEAD as the <commit> in question for this example:

    echo hi > abc       # new file, untracked so far
    git add abc
    git status          # it's staged
    git reset HEAD -- abc
    git status          # untracked

    # now with checkout
    git add abc
    git status          # staged
    git checkout HEAD -- abc
    git status          # still staged