From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:28:57 GMT
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e1001291328s1df443d6jdf0501cda17072de@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <ron1-953427.13240429012010@news.gmane.org>

Heya,

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', if the latter,
'git reset --hard' could be what you need (warning: the latter is a
destructive command that will let you _throw away history_).

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier