Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
In article <7vmxzwh906.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > 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',...
>
> I think he wanted to check paths out of a commit and the set of paths
> happened to be "everything".
>
> IOW, "checkout $commit ."
Yes!!! That's it exactly!
rg