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Any difference to unstage files using "git checkout" and "git rm"

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Is there any difference between the below three commands ? I didn't see anything.

git rm --cached --  .. 
git checkout --  .. 
git reset HEAD --  ..
posted May 19, 2014 by Sanketi Garg

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git rm --cached -- ..

This one removes the index entries for those files.

git checkout -- ..

This one checks out the content from the index into the working tree (for just those files).

git reset HEAD -- ..
The first command will remove the entries from the index entirely, and this one will return them to their state in HEAD. So if the existing commit in HEAD did not have the files at all, the this is identical to the first one.

answer May 19, 2014 by Kaushik
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