[xgamer99]

I've read the manual pages but I can't seem to understand this.

How on earth do I revert to a commit?

Say I wanted to take master and go back in time to a commit back in, say, early January (lets say b12d33d293). How would I backtrack and build the source up to that commit?

Thanks!

[darkscout]

git revert?

[xgamer99]

Tried that. git revert b12d33d293. Doesn't seem to work. When building, it builds master and not what I want it to... Are there any other steps I must make?

[stoli]

Tried that. git revert b12d33d293. Doesn't seem to work. When building, it builds master and not what I want it to... Are there any other steps I must make?

try here: http://progit.org/book/ch2-4.html

[xgamer99]

try here: http://progit.org/book/ch2-4.html

Still can't get it to work...

Why is it so hard to rollback to a previous commit? SVN made it very easy with update -r <revision>

I kinda got it to work with git reset --hard <commit>. However, after I do that I can't find a way to get back to the latest commit without git complaining about something... =/

[CrystalP]

To go back to an old revision, git checkout b12d33d293 works fine for me.

git reset to delete some commits.

[opdenkamp]

just to summarise what the other said

How on earth do I revert to a commit?

Code:

git revert b12d33d293

Say I wanted to take master and go back in time to a commit back in, say, early January (lets say b12d33d293). How would I backtrack and build the source up to that commit?

checkout the tree:

Code:

git checkout b12d33d293

if you want to do anything else than just building, do this after checking out:

Code:

git checkout -b newcoolbranch

that will create a new branch, branched off from commit b12d33d293

[Montellese]

checkout the tree:

Code:

git checkout b12d33d293

if you want to do anything else than just building, do this after checking out:

Code:

git checkout -b newcoolbranch

that will create a new branch, branched off from commit b12d33d293

This is also possible in one step by doing

Code:

git checkout [-b] newcoolbranch b12d33d293

The "-b" is optional and can be left out if you don't want to automatically switch to the new branch.

[xgamer99]

just to summarise what the other said
"How on earth do I revert to a commit?"

Code:

git revert b12d33d293

I don't think that's the same thing that I want. I think that just reverts the changes that single commit created, rather than rollback to a snapshot in time for that commit.

I will try git checkout and report back. =)

EDIT: Thanks everyone. checkout seems to be what I wanted. =)