Re: Stupid question on getting branch from yesterday

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stupid question on getting branch from yesterday
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:36:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070214203626.GB14729@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17875.28901.705687.843342@lisa.zopyra.com>

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:28:21PM -0600, Bill Lear wrote:

> >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?

No. Detached HEAD is a 1.5 thing.

> 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(??).

It can work on arbitrary commits. You can either pick the commit out of
git-log or gitk manually, or you can use your reflog:

  git bisect start
  git bisect good master@{2.days.ago}
  git bisect bad

-Peff