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- This is a good moment to show a log within a Git GUI. If you skip it
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## [Exploring History](../episodes/05-history.md)

- Git 2.23 (August 2019) added the `git restore` command as a clearer, more verbose replacement for the heavily overloaded `git checkout` when you wish to restore files into the working tree. The older style `git checkout -- file` does still work in newer versions of Git. This is an illustration of the fact that there are often multiple ways to do the same thing in Git.

## [Ignoring Things](../episodes/06-ignore.md)

Just remember that you can use wildcards and regular expressions to ignore a
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