Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 29, 2010, 21:54 UTC
Message-ID: <7vmxzwh906.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e1001291328s1df443d6jdf0501cda17072de@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 22:24, Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com> wrote:
>> Yes, I read that.  But what I'm trying to do is not just *look* at the
>> history, I want to restore my working tree to a previous version.  The
>> "Exploring History" section of the docs doesn't say how to do that.
>
> Do you want to restore your working tree only, or also throw away the
> history? If the former, you could look at 'git revert',...

I think he wanted to check paths out of a commit and the set of paths happened to be "everything".

IOW, "checkout $commit ."

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