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Re: How to check out the repository at a particular point in time

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 23, 2011, 16:05 UTC
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Michael Witten wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 15:18, R. Diez <rdiezmail-temp2@yahoo.de> wrote:
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>> I still don't quite understand how git works, but let me
>> risk a naive statement here. If "a-b-c-M" were 'master',
>> and "d-e-f" were 'new-feature', then on April 1st the
>> current version on 'master' is 'b', because I merged the
>> 'new-feature' branch at a later point in time. Does that
>> make sense?
>
> O! for the love all that is Holy!

Wait, what's wrong with what R. Diez said? It's exactly what --first-parent gives you.

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  1. R. DiezAug 22, 2011
  2. Thomas RastAug 22, 2011
  3. R. DiezAug 22, 2011
  4. Jens LehmannAug 22, 2011
  5. Michael WittenAug 23, 2011
  6. Jonathan NiederAug 23, 2011
  7. Matthieu MoyAug 23, 2011
  8. Michael WittenAug 23, 2011
  9. Jonathan NiederAug 23, 2011
  10. Andreas EricssonAug 24, 2011
  11. Randal L. SchwartzAug 24, 2011
  12. Michael WittenAug 24, 2011

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