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diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index b7bb1b4c..9442c66b 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -50,10 +50,14 @@ the `Makefile` to two revisions back, deletes hello.c by
 mistake, and gets it back from the index.
 
 ------------
-$ git checkout master
-$ git checkout master~2 Makefile
+$ git checkout master <1>
+$ git checkout master~2 Makefile <2>
 $ rm -f hello.c
-$ git checkout hello.c
+$ git checkout hello.c <3>
+
+<1> switch branch
+<2> take out a file out of other commit
+<3> or "git checkout -- hello.c", as in the next example.
 ------------
 
 If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, the