"John Dlugosz" <JDlugosz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I made a mistake. Big deal, now that I know that git storage is > immutable and changes just add to what's already there. > > A quick look at > git reflog show topic > tells me that {1} is the one I want. So, how do I rewind branch topic > to point to topic@{1} ? > I did it by making a tag, and then in gitk pointing to it and picking > "reset to here" from the context menu. > > A while back I was looking for the right/easy way to simply repoint my > branch to where I wanted. The best answer was to use push. The answer was best only because in your previous question you wanted to ensure fast-forwardness, i.e. "git push . origin/dev:dev" without plus in front to cause it to fail if it is not fast-forward. If you know you have one unwanted commit you would want to discard at the tip of topic, you do not want fast-foward safety to kick in. (1) if you are on the topic branch, you can say "git reset --hard HEAD^"; or (2) if you are not, you can obviously check out topic and do the above, or "git branch -f topic topic^". If the garbage you have at the tip of the topic is not just a single commit, you can replace HEAD^ and topic^ in the above with whatever commit you would want to point the tip at. -- 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