From: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:28:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Set the repository as it was on an earlier commit
Message-ID: <vpqiqbt95e7.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
In-Reply-To: <adf1fd3d0912251536kbf25272ob0ab8ee90e53861d@mail.gmail.com>

Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net> writes:

> I don't know if it is possible with porcelain commands, but with
> plumbing you can:
>
> # begin with a clean working dir
> git read-tree B
> git commit
> git reset --hard

I guess

(at the root of the repo)

git checkout B -- .
# git status if you want to check.
git commit

does this. The "-- ." part of "git checkout" asks Git to checkout the
files, but the path limiter prevents it from updating HEAD, so the
HEAD still points to the tip of the branch.

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/