From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 19:32:13 GMT Subject: Re: Reverting to old commit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <8345bd80805271050q7412917bt292a276fbbe6aed3@mail.gmail.com> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Marcus wrote: > Newbie question: What's the simplest way to find an old commit and revert? > > Say you have a version from yesterday which worked and today's > experiments failed, so you want to go back to that working version. > Unfortunately, it's not tagged. Instead you need to actually view the > code to identify the version you want. I thought maybe gitk might > help, but I can't find my way with gitk. I hoped you could browse > revisions easier in a GUI and tell gitk or git-gui to revert? Have a look at the reflog (git reflog) perhaps combined with "git log -p" which will show the changes each commit introduced as well. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier