gt;</code> (most often a
commit).  When a <code>&lt;tree-ish&gt;</code> is given, the paths that
match the <code>&lt;pathspec&gt;</code> are updated both in the index and in
the working tree.</p>
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<p>The index may contain unmerged entries because of a previous failed merge.
By default, if you try to check out such an entry from the index, the
checkout operation will fail and nothing will be checked out.
Using <code>-f</code> will ignore these unmerged entries.  The contents from a
spe