On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:28:21PM -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
> >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`.
>
> BTW, we are still using 1.4.4.1. This will work with that?
No. Detached HEAD is a 1.5 thing.
> Another BTW: this seems very similar to something that you would
> tackle with git bisect (haven't used that yet), but as I understand
> it, git bisect works on tags(??).
It can work on arbitrary commits. You can either pick the commit out of
git-log or gitk manually, or you can use your reflog:
git bisect start
git bisect good master@{2.days.ago}
git bisect bad
-Peff
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