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Re: Moving a file back to an earlier revision.

From
David Ho <davidkwho@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 31, 2006, 21:32 UTC
Message-ID
<4dd15d180603311332p60fa1867nc303bd92d515b4e0@mail.gmail.com>
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<4dd15d180603311313t7781f2ebk616276e9134f6472@mail.gmail.com>
Sorry I might already have found it.
File revisions

+----+----+ 1 2 3

git diff commit(3)..commit(1) filename | git-apply
David
On 3/31/06, David Ho <davidkwho@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> Another user question.  Other may actually have similar needs.
>
> I am working on a board port on a separate branch.  The branch has
> accumulated several revision of changes to a driver I worked on.  Now,
> someone has come along with a better fix so I want to help test his
> patch.  To do that I have to revert my changes to that driver (several
> revisions back) before I can apply his patch.
>
> What would be a convenient way to do that with git?
>
> TIA, David
>
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Message 4 of 8 in “Moving a file back to an earlier revision.”
  1. David HoMar 31, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsMar 31, 2006
  3. David HoMar 31, 2006
  4. David HoMar 31, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 31, 2006
  6. David HoMar 31, 2006
  7. Karl HasselströmApr 3, 2006
  8. Petr BaudisApr 1, 2006

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