From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: git question: how do I get a specific git version into my working directory?
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 13:16:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150418131607.GD4182@acm.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83twwd7gl9.fsf@gnu.org>
Hello, Eli.
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 03:42:42PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
> > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 14:18:59 +0200
> > >>>>> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>:
> > > Hello, Emacs.
> > > A simple question (I hope): How do I get a specific SW revision into my
> > > working directory. I want to do something like this:
> > > git <command> 7e09ef09a479731d01b1ca46e94ddadd73ac98e3
> > > git checkout doesn't seem to be the thing.
> > "git checkout 7e09ef09a479731d01b1ca46e94ddadd73ac98e3" should work.
> It also creates a "detached HEAD", so Alan should IMO be aware of
> that, and return to the upstream head ASAP (or, better, do all of this
> in a separate branch to begin with).
I'm aware of it, now! Given that I'm not intending to do any VCS
operation on this, other than "git checkout <revision number>", I should
be all right, surely? I'm expecting (?hoping) that on switching back to
the HEAD revision, the detached head (?all detached heads) will vanish.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-18 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-18 10:33 git question: how do I get a specific git version into my working directory? Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-18 10:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-04-18 12:18 ` Steinar Bang
2015-04-18 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-18 13:16 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2015-04-18 13:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-18 13:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-18 14:07 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2015-04-18 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-18 17:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-04-18 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-18 17:44 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2015-04-18 12:48 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-04-18 13:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2015-04-18 13:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-04-18 13:57 ` Steinar Bang
2015-04-18 14:03 ` Andreas Schwab
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