out anyway. In other words, the ref can be held by more than one
worktree.
+--[no-]recurse-submodules::
+ Using --recurse-submodules will update the content of all initialized
+ submodules according to the commit recorded in the superproject. If
+ local modifications in a submodule would be overwritten the checkout
+ will fail unless `-f` is used. If nothing (or --no-recurse-submodules)
+ is used, the work trees of submodules will not be updated.
+
<branch>::
Branch to checkout; if it refers to a branch (i.e., a name that,
when prepended with "refs/heads/", is a valid ref), then that
$ git log -g -2 HEAD
------------
+ARGUMENT DISAMBIGUATION
+-----------------------
+
+When there is only one argument given and it is not `--` (e.g. "git
+checkout abc"), and when the argument is both a valid `<tree-ish>`
+(e.g. a branch "abc" exists) and a valid `<pathspec>` (e.g. a file
+or a directory whose name is "abc" exists), Git would usually ask
+you to disambiguate. Because checking out a branch is so common an
+operation, however, "git checkout abc" takes "abc" as a `<tree-ish>`
+in such a situation. Use `git checkout -- <pathspec>` if you want
+to checkout these paths out of the index.
+
EXAMPLES
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