Re: About detached heads

["Jonathan del Strother" <maillist@steelskies.com>]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Geoff Russell
<geoffrey.russell@gmail.com> wrote:
> This should be simple! I have a series of commits:
>
>            1---2---3---4---5
>
>  I want to go back to 3 but not branch, so I want
>
>            1---2---3---4---5---3
>
>  ?
>
>          git checkout 3...
>
>  gets me the commit on a detached head, but I don't know how to put this back
>  as the HEAD.


Two options.  Either rewrite history, nuking commits 4 & 5 :
  git reset --hard 3

or publicly reverse the changes introduced by 5 & 4 :
  git revert 5
  git revert 4

Jon