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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarification for the command "git checkout <branch>"
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:00:31 +0100
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Cc: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org,
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> This is done by updating HEAD to point at the given branch,

Is it supposed that Git users should know from other information sources 
already what the key word "HEAD" means?

Regards,
Markus