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Development Tools Introduction to Git Managing Committed Files Commit SHAs and Undoing Commits

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difference between `git checkout -- <file-name>` and `git revert`

What exactly is different from the two?

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git checkout is when you want to cancel the recent changes to files. You will also use the git checkout command very often to change branch which you can learn about in branches and merging course here.

The git revert command is only for reverting a commit to a previous commit.