Is there a difference between "git reset --hard hash" and "git checkout hash"?

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Published on 2010-03-29T21:55:02Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 22:13 UTC
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While reset and checkout have different usages most of the time, I can't see what difference there is between these two.

There probably is one or nobody would have bothered adding a "--hard" option to do something the basic "checkout" can do.

Maybe there is a difference is the way you will the the history?

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