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Title: documentation: improve docs for `checkout_head` by ethomson · Pull Request #3822 · libgit2/libgit2 · GitHub

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Description: A cross-platform, linkable library implementation of Git that you can use in your application. - documentation: improve docs for `checkout_head` by ethomson · Pull Request #3822 · libgit2/libgit2

Open Graph Description: git_checkout_head is sadly misunderstood as something that can switch branches. It cannot. Update the documentation to reflect this. Fixes #2864

X Description: git_checkout_head is sadly misunderstood as something that can switch branches. It cannot. Update the documentation to reflect this. Fixes #2864

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