Re: Stupid question on getting branch from yesterday

>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`.