In article <7vmxzwh906.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 22:24, Ron Garret <ron1@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html