Hi, On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > Though actually the quickest way to checkout an arbitrary revision is > > with detached heads, and that doesn't require learning git-branch > > right away. > > But the *easiest* way, where "easiest" means "involves the fewest > commands with smallest risk of fscking up your own repo", is to do > > > git clone <other-devs-repo> other-devs-repo > cd other-devs-repo > git checkout -b thebug <the-bug-hash> I'd just do git checkout <the-bug>^{commit} and be done... Ciao, Dscho - 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