So I wanted to go back to my previous commit without destryoing the latest one I have now. How do I do this? Doing a git reset HARD will destroy my current commit right?
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So I wanted to go back to my previous commit without destryoing the latest one I have now. How do I do this? Doing a git reset HARD will destroy my current commit right?
Assuming you don’t have any changes that you have not checked in,
git checkout $OLD_COMMITwill take you there, andgit checkout $BRANCHwill take you back.That will put you, potentially, on a detached head; see
git checkout --helpfor the details, but if all you want is to run tests on the old version or something that should be fine.You might also be interested in:
git stash– to store away uncommitted changes temporarilygit show $SHA1to show the changes of the old commit as a diffgit show ${REF}:${PATH}to show the content of $PATH in $REF(Ref can be a sha, or a branch, or whatever, in the last git show invocation.)