Re: About detached heads

From: David Kågedal <davidk@lysator.liu.se>
Date: Mar 14, 2008, 10:39 UTC
Message-ID: <87iqzpfv3l.fsf@lysator.liu.se>
In-Reply-To: <57518fd10803140251v425a0fa3ud11687a5043806cc@mail.gmail.com>

"Jonathan del Strother" <maillist@steelskies.com> writes:

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

The revert can be done by resetting to the tree in 3:

  git checkout 3 -- .
  git commit -m "reset to 3"

-- 
David Kågedal