[GRLUG] git syntax question

[Nathan Phillip Brink]

On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 04:56:16PM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> I'm working with Samba 4 check out of git.  In tracking down a bug I've
> been asked to test it prior to commit
> 995d1567265be178b4e45f79ea4562a7041ffa52.  What is the git'y speak for
> rolling back a repo to prior to a specified commit?

I don't think that this person wants you to do a revert commit. What I
would do is:

$ git checkout 995d1567265be178b4e45f79ea4562a7041ffa52^

The `^' tells git to get the parent of the previous commit hash. Git
will complain about you working in a `detached head'(?) state, but
that is what you want -- to look at what the project looked like back
in time.

-- 
binki

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