Re: for newbs = little exercise / tutorial / warmup for windows and other non-sophisticated new Git users :-) [Scanned]

From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 31, 2008, 16:33 UTC
Message-ID: <slrngln7m1.7bm.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0812311103000.19665@iabervon.org>

On 2008-12-31, Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> wrote:

>> $ git checkout .                    // tidy up current commit
>> $ git checkout <version>     // roll back

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> Either that, or:
>
> $ git checkout <version>
> $ git checkout .
>
> (it doesn't matter whether you get rid of the local modifications and 
> deletions before switching, or switch first, and then get rid of any 
> remaining local modifications and deletions)
>
> You may also want:
>
> $ git clean

I think "git checkout -f <version>" will do *all* of that.