Its the names of files, I believe. so git checkout --ours {name_of_file1,name_of_file2,and_so_on} The {} is standard bash expansion, you can try it like mkdir

Its the names of files, I believe. so git checkout --ours {name_of_file1,name_of_file2,and_so_on} The {} is standard bash expansion, you can try it like mkdir hello{one,two,three}, so parent poster went with articles use of new-file as the name of the files that were affected.