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From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Subject: Re: Stupid question on getting branch from yesterday
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:28:21 -0600
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On Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 14:49:19 (-0500) Shawn O. Pearce writes:
>...
>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`.

BTW, we are still using 1.4.4.1.  This will work with that?

Another BTW: this seems very similar to something that you would
tackle with git bisect (haven't used that yet), but as I understand
it, git bisect works on tags(??).

Sort of what I had in mind:

% git bisect start
% git bisect good --date="2 days ago"
% git bisect bad master
[...]



Bill