Re: checking out later commits from rolled back state

From: Alexey Shumkin <alex.crezoff@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 1, 2011, 14:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20111101185626.6e16326c@zappedws>
In-Reply-To: <1320158207959-6951892.post@n2.nabble.com>

usually, before you checkout a "past" commit you are on a "current" named branch so, do $ git log <branch_you_were_on_before>

In general, most "history" git commands take a commit hash as an argument and HEAD as a default one if none was specified (HEAD is always CURRENT commit (you are on), it is a difference of SVN)

when you ran $ git log it was, actually, $ git log HEAD

Also, you may specify several commits as arguments of git log It it very usefull to use (in terminal) to see how branches are diverged (on X/Windows gitk is more pretty) $ git log --oneline --graph --decorate <branch1> <branch2> <branchN>

There is also "git reflog" command RTM git-reflog

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> Hello, I a m relatively new to git, and my question pertains to
> moving back and forth through the history of my commits.
> 
> Here is how I open a previous commit:
> 
> 1)$ git log
> 
> 2) (get sha1 hash of previous commit)
> 
> 3)$ git checkout <hash of my previous commit>
> 
> the problem is that once I am working with that commit, git log only
> shows the hash tags up to the time that the commit was made, but not
> any of the later commits. Is there a way to get the hash tags of my
> later commits when I am in that rolled back state?
> 
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