7.7 Git Tools - Reset Demystified
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Before moving on to more specialized tools, let’s talk about the Git reset and checkout commands. These commands are two of the most confusing parts of Git when you first encounter them. They do so many things that it seems hopeless to actually understand them and employ them properly. For this, we recommend a simple metaphor.
An easier way to think about reset and checkout is through the mental frame of Git being a content manager of three different trees. By “tree” here, we really mean “collection of files”, not specifically the data structure. There are a few cases where the index doesn’t exactly act like a tree, but for our purposes it is easier to think about it this way for now.
