Re: Stupid question on getting branch from yesterday

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 19:49 UTC
Message-ID: <20070214194919.GE28290@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <17875.25882.784307.731860@lisa.zopyra.com>

Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:

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> 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.