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Asked: 2026-05-26T06:49:28+00:00

I have been reading other questions on stack overflow but nothing simply explains what

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I have been reading other questions on stack overflow but nothing simply explains what I need. I am pushing to a remote repo with one other collaborator. I want to check out a past commit from a few weeks ago. How do I do this?

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    git checkout -b <branch_name> <sha1>

    (this will create a new branch and checkout at that particular commit that you want)

    If you just want to reset current branch to it:

    git reset --hard <sha1>

    Update on sha1:

    What I meant by Sha1 is this long hash that is associated with each commit and identifies it. You can easily find it by doing a git log

    Sample git log output:

    commit 10a45e0f0680b8fd493ed0264fe24be2648af1b3
Author: manojlds <manojlds@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Oct 13 19:04:23 2011 -0600

    some other commit

    10a45e0f0680b8fd493ed0264fe24be2648af1b3 is the sha1 hash.

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