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From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
To: David Bryson <david@statichacks.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: checking out by date
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:24:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901122224.37058.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090112193039.GO25823@eratosthenes.cryptobackpack.org>

David Bryson <david@statichacks.org> writes:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a very large repository that imported into git from CVS with
> about 5 years worth of history.
> 
> Today I decided to checkout some code from the past:
> 
> $ git checkout master@{"Mon Dec 31  2007"}
> warning: Log for 'master' only goes back to Tue, 2 Dec 2008 16:57:15
> -0800.

git checkout $(git rev-list -n1 --before="Mon Dec 31  2007 23:59:59")

-- robin

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-12 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-12 19:30 checking out by date David Bryson
2009-01-12 19:58 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2009-01-12 21:24 ` Robin Rosenberg [this message]

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