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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Marcus <prima@wordit.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reverting to old commit
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 11:09:40 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3bq2r39gh.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8345bd80805271050q7412917bt292a276fbbe6aed3@mail.gmail.com>

Marcus <prima@wordit.com> writes:

> Newbie question: What's the simplest way to find an old commit and revert?
> 
> Say you have a version from yesterday which worked and today's
> experiments failed, so you want to go back to that working version.
> Unfortunately, it's not tagged. Instead you need to actually view the
> code to identify the version you want. I thought maybe gitk might
> help, but I can't find my way with gitk. I hoped you could browse
> revisions easier in a GUI and tell gitk or git-gui to revert?

Errr... isn't it what git-bisect is for?

If it is not, viewing git-log, or git-reflog output should help...
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-27 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-27 17:50 Reverting to old commit Marcus
2008-05-27 18:09 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-05-27 20:43   ` Brandon Casey
2008-05-27 23:00     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-05-27 19:32 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2008-05-27 20:02 ` Dirk Süsserott
2008-05-27 20:17   ` Paolo Bonzini
2008-05-27 20:41 ` Robin Rosenberg

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