Re: Stupid question on getting branch from yesterday

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Feb 14, 2007, 19:54 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7iuko6qp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070214194919.GE28290@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

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> Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
>> I have not yet figured this one out: I have not tagged anything, but
>> know that I checked in something lame sometime between now and two days
>> ago.  How do I get my working repo to be that as it was, say, yesterday?
>> 
>> Do I do:
>> 
>> % git log --since="2 days ago"
>> 
>> parse, the output for the commit I want, and then do
>> 
>> % git reset <SHA>
>
> No.  This would update your branch and your index to <SHA>, but
> leave your working directory alone.  That's not what you want here.
>
> Use `git checkout <SHA>` which will detach your HEAD and seek to
> the commit, leaving your current commit alone.  Later you can get
> back by `git checkout oldbranch`.

Ah, I thought Bill was talking about getting rid of lame one, but now when I re-read his message, I think he is talking about going there to take a look, not necessarily wanting to discard or alter history.

Sorry, Bill, if that is the case, forget what I said about reset/revert/rebase in the other message.