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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def read_job(self, job_id, checkout=False):
 """ Reads head and reads the tree into index, and checkout the work-tree when checkout=True. This does not fetch the job from the actual server. It needs to be in the local git already. """

        self.job_id = job_id

        commit = self.get_head_commit()
        self.logger.debug('Job ref points to ' + commit)
        self.command_exec(['read-tree', self.ref_head])

        if checkout:
            self.logger.debug('Working directory in ' + self.work_tree)

            # make sure we have checked out all files we have added until now. Important for simple models,
            # so we have the actual model.py and dataset scripts.
            if os.path.exists(self.work_tree):
                shutil.rmtree(self.work_tree)

            os.makedirs(self.work_tree)

            # make the working tree reflect exactly the tree of ref_head.
            # since we removed the dir before, we have exactly the tree of the reference
            # '--', '.' is important to not update HEAD
            self.command_exec(['--work-tree', self.work_tree, 'checkout', self.ref_head, '--', '.'])