From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:13:44 GMT
Subject: Re: several quick questions
Message-ID: <7vy80drbx3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <87k6bxvmj6.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> writes:

> 2) Ensure that bogus-branch exists somewhere (don't care where), then
>    move it:
>
> 	# Create the branch (if it doesn't exist)
> 	git checkout -b bogus-branch >& /dev/null
> 	# Switch to it (which doesn't happen above if it already existed)
> 	git checkout bogus-branch
> 	# Move the branch to the revision of interest
> 	git reset --hard <revision>

For moving around in history (like cg-seek if I understand
correctly), the above is the right and probably most efficient
way to do with the core-git tools.

	# setup
	$ git branch -f temp ;# make sure it exists
        $ git checkout temp ;# and switch to it
	# repeatedly...
        $ git reset --hard <revision1>
        # do interesting things
        $ git reset --hard <revision2>
        # do interesting things
        $ git reset --hard <revision3>
        # ...
        $ git reset --hard <revisionn>
        # do interesting things
        # once you are done
        $ git checkout master
        $ git branch -D temp