git-checkout(1) - Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree
Updates files in the working tree to match the version in the index or the specified tree. If no paths
are given, git checkout will also update HEAD to set the specified branch as the current branch.
-q, --quiet
    Quiet, suppress feedback messages.
-f, --force
    When switching branches, proceed even if the index or the working tree differs from HEAD. This is
    used to throw away local changes.

    When checking out paths from the index, do not fail upon unmerged entries; instead, unmerged entries
    are ignored.
--ours, --theirs
    When checking out paths from the index, check out stage #2 (ours) or #3 (theirs) for unmerged paths.
-b
    Create a new branch named <new_branch> and start it at <start_point>; see git-branch(1) for details.
-B
    Creates the branch <new_branch> and start it at <start_point>; if it already exists, then reset it to
    <start_point>. This is equivalent to running "git branch" with "-f"; see git-branch(1) for details.
-t, --track
    When creating a new branch, set up "upstream" configuration. See "--track" in git-branch(1) for
    details.

    If no -b option is given, the name of the new branch will be derived from the remote-tracking branch.
    If "remotes/" or "refs/remotes/" is prefixed it is stripped away, and then the part up to the next
    slash (which would be the nickname of the remote) is removed. This would tell us to use "hack" as the
    local branch when branching off of "origin/hack" (or "remotes/origin/hack", or even
    "refs/remotes/origin/hack"). If the given name has no slash, or the above guessing results in an
    empty name, the guessing is aborted. You can explicitly give a name with -b in such a case.
--no-track
    Do not set up "upstream" configuration, even if the branch.autosetupmerge configuration variable is
    true.
-l
    Create the new branch’s reflog; see git-branch(1) for details.
--detach
    Rather than checking out a branch to work on it, check out a commit for inspection and discardable
    experiments. This is the default behavior of "git checkout <commit>" when <commit> is not a branch
    name. See the "DETACHED HEAD" section below for details.
--orphan
    Create a new orphan branch, named <new_branch>, started from <start_point> and switch to it. The
    first commit made on this new branch will have no parents and it will be the root of a new history
    totally disconnected from all the other branches and commits.

    The index and the working tree are adjusted as if you had previously run "git checkout
    <start_point>". This allows you to start a new history that records a set of paths similar to
    <start_point> by easily running "git commit -a" to make the root commit.

    This can be useful when you want to publish the tree from a commit without exposing its full history.
    You might want to do this to publish an open source branch of a project whose current tree is
    "clean", but whose full history contains proprietary or otherwise encumbered bits of code.

    If you want to start a disconnected history that records a set of paths that is totally different
    from the one of <start_point>, then you should clear the index and the working tree right after
    creating the orphan branch by running "git rm -rf ." from the top level of the working tree.
    Afterwards you will be ready to prepare your new files, repopulating the working tree, by copying
    them from elsewhere, extracting a tarball, etc.
-m, --merge
    When switching branches, if you have local modifications to one or more files that are different
    between the current branch and the branch to which you are switching, the command refuses to switch
    branches in order to preserve your modifications in context. However, with this option, a three-way
    merge between the current branch, your working tree contents, and the new branch is done, and you
    will be on the new branch.

    When a merge conflict happens, the index entries for conflicting paths are left unmerged, and you
    need to resolve the conflicts and mark the resolved paths with git add (or git rm if the merge should
    result in deletion of the path).

    When checking out paths from the index, this option lets you recreate the conflicted merge in the
    specified paths.
--conflict=<style>
    The same as --merge option above, but changes the way the conflicting hunks are presented, overriding
    the merge.conflictstyle configuration variable. Possible values are "merge" (default) and "diff3" (in
    addition to what is shown by "merge" style, shows the original contents).
-p, --patch
    Interactively select hunks in the difference between the <tree-ish> (or the index, if unspecified)
    and the working tree. The chosen hunks are then applied in reverse to the working tree (and if a
    <tree-ish> was specified, the index).

           This means that you can use git checkout -p to selectively discard edits from your current working
           tree. See the “Interactive Mode” section of git-add(1) to learn how to operate the --patch mode.
<branch>
    Branch to checkout; if it refers to a branch (i.e., a name that, when prepended with "refs/heads/",
    is a valid ref), then that branch is checked out. Otherwise, if it refers to a valid commit, your
    HEAD becomes "detached" and you are no longer on any branch (see below for details).

    As a special case, the "@{-N}" syntax for the N-th last branch checks out the branch (instead of
    detaching). You may also specify - which is synonymous with "@{-1}".

    As a further special case, you may use "A...B" as a shortcut for the merge base of A and B if there
    is exactly one merge base. You can leave out at most one of A and B, in which case it defaults to
    HEAD.

<new_branch>
    Name for the new branch.

<start_point>
    The name of a commit at which to start the new branch; see git-branch(1) for details. Defaults to
    HEAD.

<tree-ish>
    Tree to checkout from (when paths are given). If not specified, the index will be used.