Re: About detached heads

From: Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com>
Date: Mar 14, 2008, 09:51 UTC
Message-ID: <57518fd10803140251v425a0fa3ud11687a5043806cc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <93c3eada0803140246k53408c74m21f9dc277857202d@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> wrote:

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> This should be simple! I have a series of commits:
>
>            1---2---3---4---5
>
>  I want to go back to 3 but not branch, so I want
>
>            1---2---3---4---5---3
>
>  ?
>
>          git checkout 3...
>
>  gets me the commit on a detached head, but I don't know how to put this back
>  as the HEAD.

Two options.  Either rewrite history, nuking commits 4 & 5 :
  git reset --hard 3

or publicly reverse the changes introduced by 5 & 4 :
  git revert 5
  git revert 4

Jon