Never have I read Git Pro or have the deep understanding of git’s internals. But I use checkout almost every day, as a shortcut to create a new branch and switc

Never have I read Git Pro or have the deep understanding of git’s internals. But I use checkout almost every day, as a shortcut to create a new branch and switch to it, throw away changes that I don’t need and…well, that’s pretty much it. Now that I have read this article half way, I decided to stop. Because I am learning a few extra things that’s kind of messing up my mental model of what that command does. I think a fair % of git users might be in my boat. Our knowledge, hence our burden is limited. So community might not be as confused with checkout as the author or those who grok git.