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Re:Mercurial RFC of a new extension to directly operate on G... by lilyball on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @03:32AM (#21395333)
> For convenience, it will also update the HEAD ref if you check out the full contents of a branch.

Not quite accurate. From the root of the repo, `git checkout foo -- .` will checkout the entire contents of the branch without updating HEAD.

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