Re: About detached heads

["Geoff Russell" <geoffrey.russell@gmail.com>]

On 3/15/08, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> ...
>
>         git reset --hard HEAD@{yesterday.at.4pm}
>
>  and it'll magically bring you back to the state you were yesterday at
>  4pm.  You need the 6pm state instead?  No problem: just ask for
>  yesterday.at.6pm then.
>
>  And before doing the 'reset --hard', you might want to do a simple
>  'checkout' beforehand so you can be sure it actually corresponds to what
>  you want:
>
>         git checkout HEAD@{yesterday.at.4pm}
>         [compile, test, whatever]
>         git checkout HEAD@{yesterday.at.6pm}
>         [compile, test, whatever]
>
>  and when OK with it, then:
>
>         # return to your master branch (or any other branch)
>         git checkout master
>         # then reset it to the desired state
>         git reset --hard HEAD@{yesterday.at.6pm}
>
>
>
>  Nicolas

More useful advice ... many thanks.

Cheers,
Geoff.