"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I have not yet figured this one out: I have not tagged anything, but >> know that I checked in something lame sometime between now and two days >> ago. How do I get my working repo to be that as it was, say, yesterday? >> >> Do I do: >> >> % git log --since="2 days ago" >> >> parse, the output for the commit I want, and then do >> >> % git reset <SHA> > > No. This would update your branch and your index to <SHA>, but > leave your working directory alone. That's not what you want here. > > Use `git checkout <SHA>` which will detach your HEAD and seek to > the commit, leaving your current commit alone. Later you can get > back by `git checkout oldbranch`. Ah, I thought Bill was talking about getting rid of lame one, but now when I re-read his message, I think he is talking about going there to take a look, not necessarily wanting to discard or alter history. Sorry, Bill, if that is the case, forget what I said about reset/revert/rebase in the other message. - 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