git-checkout vs. git-reset vs. git-restore

This note compares the differences between the default actions of git-checkout, git-reset and git-restore.

¶git-checkout^[1]

# restore hello.c from `HEAD` for both the index and the working tree
# equivalent to `git restore --staged --worktree hello.c`
git checkout hello.c

¶git-reset^[2]

# restore hello.c from `HEAD` for the index
# equivalent to `git restore --staged hello.c`
git reset -- hello.c

¶git-restore^[3]

# restore hello.c from the index for the working tree
git restore hello.c

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1. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-checkout ↩︎

2. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-reset ↩︎

3. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-restore ↩︎