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From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Subject: Re: Stupid question on getting branch from yesterday
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:24:09 -0600
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On Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 14:49:19 (-0500) Shawn O. Pearce writes:
>Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
>> I have not yet figured this one out: I have not tagged anything, but
>> know that I checked in something lame sometime between now and two days
>> ago.  How do I get my working repo to be that as it was, say, yesterday?
>> 
>> Do I do:
>> 
>> % git log --since="2 days ago"
>> 
>> parse, the output for the commit I want, and then do
>> 
>> % git reset <SHA>
>
>No.  This would update your branch and your index to <SHA>, but
>leave your working directory alone.  That's not what you want here.
>
>Use `git checkout <SHA>` which will detach your HEAD and seek to
>the commit, leaving your current commit alone.  Later you can get
>back by `git checkout oldbranch`.

Ah, ok, then, you can use checkout with the SHA...

Junio, I was talking about just getting back to "lame" and inspecting,
fixing, etc., not getting rid of things back to then.


Bill