Re: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-) [Scanned]

On Tuesday 30 December 2008, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote 
about 'Re: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and 
other non-sophisticated new Git users :-) [Scanned]':

"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." [off-list ref] writes:

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"git checkout <branch> <paths>" is similar to "hg revert -r <branch>
<paths>",

No it is not.

The form of the command is makes this request:

   Please look into that named <tree-ish>, and check out the named
   <paths> out of it to my work tree.

That seems similar to "hg revert":
Using the -r option, revert the given files or directories to their
contents as of a specific revision.

   Because the reason I want them in 
   my work tree is so that I can include them as part of the next commit
   I am preparing to create in the index, please update these paths in
my index while at it.

This part is odd to me, but does make some sense.  I can only think of a 
few reasons to retrieve a file from a different tree-ish without 
immediately turning around and doing "git add <bar>".
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