From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:34:41 GMT
Subject: Re: several quick questions
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0602142133360.23093@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <43F231C5.5010205@op5.se>

Hi,

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> [...] it would be nifty (and I imagine not particularly hard) to teach 
> "git checkout" to check out any revision, and not just a branch.

You have to have a valid HEAD. So, you can create a throw-away branch 
easily:

	git-checkout -f throw HEAD~56

Hth,
Dscho