To check out to a specific commit in Git

To check out to a specific commit in Git, you can use the git checkout command followed by the commit hash.

 

Here are the steps:

 

Find the hash of the commit you want to check out. You can use the git log command to see the commit history and find the hash of the commit you want to check out.

 

Use the git checkout command followed by the hash of the commit. For example, if the commit hash is abcdefg, you can use the following command:

 

git checkout abcdefg

This will switch your working directory to the state of the repository at the time of that commit.

 

Note: Checking out a specific commit puts Git into “detached HEAD” state, which means that any changes you make will not be saved in a branch. If you want to make changes and commit them, you should create a new branch before checking out the commit. For example:

 

git checkout -b my-new-branch abcdefg

This creates a new branch named my-new-branch starting from the commit with hash abcdefg, and switches your working directory to that branch. Now any changes you make and commit will be saved in the my-new-branch branch.

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