Re: Stupid question on getting branch from yesterday

["Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>]

Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> wrote:
> I have not yet figured this one out: I have not tagged anything, but
> know that I checked in something lame sometime between now and two days
> ago.  How do I get my working repo to be that as it was, say, yesterday?
> 
> Do I do:
> 
> % git log --since="2 days ago"
> 
> parse, the output for the commit I want, and then do
> 
> % git reset <SHA>

No.  This would update your branch and your index to <SHA>, but
leave your working directory alone.  That's not what you want here.

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`.
 
-- 
Shawn.