From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:24:36 GMT
Subject: Re: checking out by date
Message-ID: <200901122224.37058.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090112193039.GO25823@eratosthenes.cryptobackpack.org>

David Bryson <david@statichacks.org> writes:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a very large repository that imported into git from CVS with
> about 5 years worth of history.
> 
> Today I decided to checkout some code from the past:
> 
> $ git checkout master@{"Mon Dec 31  2007"}
> warning: Log for 'master' only goes back to Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:57:15
> -0800.

git checkout $(git rev-list -n1 --before="Mon Dec 31  2007 23:59:59")

-- robin