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diff --git a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
index 985bb2f8..09512890 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-checkout.txt
@@ -66,19 +66,19 @@ the `Makefile` to two revisions back, deletes hello.c by
 mistake, and gets it back from the index.
 +
 ------------
-$ git checkout master <1>
-$ git checkout master~2 Makefile <2>
+$ git checkout master             <1>
+$ git checkout master~2 Makefile  <2>
 $ rm -f hello.c
-$ git checkout hello.c <3>
-
+$ 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.
-------------
+<3> restore hello.c from HEAD of current branch
 +
-If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, the
-last step above would be confused as an instruction to switch to
-that branch.  You should instead write:
+If you have an unfortunate branch that is named `hello.c`, this
+step would be confused as an instruction to switch to that branch.
+You should instead write:
 +
 ------------
 $ git checkout -- hello.c