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Expand Up @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ You can see that the changes have been reverted.

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It's important to understand that `git checkout -- <file>` is a dangerous command.
It's important to understand that `git checkout \-- <file>` is a dangerous command.
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I think you're doing what's called escaping.

Any local changes you made to that file are gone -- Git just replaced that file with the most recently-committed version.
Don't ever use this command unless you absolutely know that you don't want those unsaved local changes.
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