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checking out later commits from rolled back state

Subject: checking out later commits from rolled back state

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photoshop_nerd· Nov 1, 2011, 14:36 UTC · lore

Hello, I a m relatively new to git, and my question pertains to moving back and forth through the history of my commits.

Here is how I open a previous commit:

1)$ git log

2) (get sha1 hash of previous commit)

3)$ git checkout <hash of my previous commit>

the problem is that once I am working with that commit, git log only shows the hash tags up to the time that the commit was made, but not any of the later commits. Is there a way to get the hash tags of my later commits when I am in that rolled back state?

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Alexey Shumkin· Nov 1, 2011, 14:56 UTC · re: photoshop_nerd · lore

Re: checking out later commits from rolled back state

usually, before you checkout a "past" commit you are on a "current" named branch so, do $ git log <branch_you_were_on_before>

In general, most "history" git commands take a commit hash as an argument and HEAD as a default one if none was specified (HEAD is always CURRENT commit (you are on), it is a difference of SVN)

when you ran $ git log it was, actually, $ git log HEAD

Also, you may specify several commits as arguments of git log It it very usefull to use (in terminal) to see how branches are diverged (on X/Windows gitk is more pretty) $ git log --oneline --graph --decorate <branch1> <branch2> <branchN>

There is also "git reflog" command RTM git-reflog

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> Hello, I a m relatively new to git, and my question pertains to
> moving back and forth through the history of my commits.
> 
> Here is how I open a previous commit:
> 
> 1)$ git log
> 
> 2) (get sha1 hash of previous commit)
> 
> 3)$ git checkout <hash of my previous commit>
> 
> the problem is that once I am working with that commit, git log only
> shows the hash tags up to the time that the commit was made, but not
> any of the later commits. Is there a way to get the hash tags of my
> later commits when I am in that rolled back state?
> 
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/checking-out-later-commits-from-rolled-back-state-tp6951892p6951892.html
> Sent from the git mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Vincent van Ravesteijn· Nov 1, 2011, 14:58 UTC · re: photoshop_nerd · lore

Re: checking out later commits from rolled back state

Op 1-11-2011 15:36, photoshop_nerd schreef:

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> Hello, I a m relatively new to git, and my question pertains to moving back
> and forth through the history of my commits.
>
> Here is how I open a previous commit:
>
> 1)$ git log
>
> 2) (get sha1 hash of previous commit)
>
> 3)$ git checkout<hash of my previous commit>
>
> the problem is that once I am working with that commit, git log only shows
> the hash tags up to the time that the commit was made, but not any of the
> later commits. Is there a way to get the hash tags of my later commits when
> I am in that rolled back state?
>

If your are on branch 'master':

git log git checkout <hash of previous commit>

then

"git log master" will show you the log from the tip of the master branch.

Vincent