Re: Reverting to old commit

From: Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Date: May 27, 2008, 20:02 UTC
Message-ID: <483C68E5.1040408@dirk.my1.cc>
In-Reply-To: <8345bd80805271050q7412917bt292a276fbbe6aed3@mail.gmail.com>

Marcus schrieb:

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> 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?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcus
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Probably I misunderstood, but: do you *know* which version worked well? I.e. when you start gitk, can you point to the working commit and are just wondering how to revert to that one?

Then gitk's "reset ... branch to here" could help you. Right-click the desired commit and reset the branch.

There's no need to have a tag for this. You can even create a tag afterwards for any commit you like. It's just an alias for the commit id (sha1).

If you cannot identify the working commit, then please forget my answer and follow the "git bisect" proposals.