From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 20:41:04 GMT
Subject: Re: Reverting to old commit
Message-ID: <200805272241.04884.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <8345bd80805271050q7412917bt292a276fbbe6aed3@mail.gmail.com>

tisdagen den 27 maj 2008 19.50.31 skrev Marcus:
> Newbie question: What's the simplest way to find an old commit and revert?
> 
> Say you have a version from yesterday which worked and today's
> experiments failed, so you want to go back to that working version.
> Unfortunately, it's not tagged. Instead you need to actually view the
> code to identify the version you want. I thought maybe gitk might
> help, but I can't find my way with gitk. I hoped you could browse
> revisions easier in a GUI and tell gitk or git-gui to revert?

If you know a line of code that you know or suspect is wrong, you
can find the commit that introduced the version using git blame. 

-- robin