Re: Set the repository as it was on an earlier commit

["Santi Béjar" <santi@agolina.net>]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Sergio Belkin <sebelk@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Firstly merry Christmas everyone.
>
> I am somewhat new to git, and I've found great, but still I have some
> doubts about it, let's say I have the following repo with:
>
> A---B---C---D
>
> Being A the first commit,  B the second one an D the last one.
>
> How I do to go back to let's say... B commit status, I mean somewhat as follows:
>
> A---B---C---D---B'
>
> B' would be the same as B. I am not asking to do something so:
>
> A---B---C---D to A---B losing C and D commits,
>
> I'd like to keep on history C and D commits, can git to do that?

I don't know if it is possible with porcelain commands, but with
plumbing you can:

# begin with a clean working dir
git read-tree B
git commit
git reset --hard

HTH,
Santi