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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com>
Cc: git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: can git reset or checkout be reverted?
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:47:40 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3vdrnvczd.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090206141940.GB7231@b2j>

bill lam <cbill.lam@gmail.com> writes:

> If I want to recall a old version of testing by
> 
> git reset --hard sha1
> or
> git checkout sha1
> 
> then git log does not show anything beyond that commit. It does give
> some warning and recommend -b switch next time.  If I only do that by
> accident or ignorance.  How to revert to the original HEAD?

  git checkout ORIG_HEAD

or

  git checkout HEAD@{1}

You can check it out wrt. second form using "git reflog" ("git log -g").

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-06 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-06 14:19 can git reset or checkout be reverted? bill lam
2009-02-06 14:43 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-02-06 14:47 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2009-02-06 16:03 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-02-07  5:31   ` bill lam

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