From: Ron Garret <ron1@flownet.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:12:24 GMT
Subject: Re: master^ is not a local branch -- huh?!?
Message-ID: <ron1-6C7BCB.14122429012010@news.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vmxzwh906.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

In article <7vmxzwh906.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>,
 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> 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