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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: Stupid question on getting branch from yesterday
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:49:19 -0500
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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`.
 
-- 
Shawn.