Re: Reverting to old commit

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Jakub Narebski wrote:
> Marcus <prima@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>> Newbie question: What's the simplest way to find an old commit and revert?
>>
>> Say you have a version from yesterday which worked and today's
>> experiments failed, so you want to go back to that working version.
>> Unfortunately, it's not tagged. Instead you need to actually view the
>> code to identify the version you want. I thought maybe gitk might
>> help, but I can't find my way with gitk. I hoped you could browse
>> revisions easier in a GUI and tell gitk or git-gui to revert?
> 
> Errr... isn't it what git-bisect is for?
> 
> If it is not, viewing git-log, or git-reflog output should help...

Shouldn't we be encouraging the use of 'git log -g' rather than 'git reflog'?
git-reflog seems more like plumbing than porcelain to me.

-brandon

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