From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: git question: how do I get a specific git version into my working directory? Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:42:42 +0300 Message-ID: <83twwd7gl9.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20150418103301.GB4182@acm.fritz.box> <86sibx7hos.fsf@dod.no> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429361001 12583 80.91.229.3 (18 Apr 2015 12:43:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 12:43:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Steinar Bang Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 18 14:43:13 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YjS5Z-0002fR-9c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 14:43:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45594 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjS5Y-0002jb-Kj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 08:43:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55023) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjS5N-0002jE-J5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 08:43:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjS5I-0001N5-4u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 08:43:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:38011) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YjS5H-0001Mx-TY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 08:42:56 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NN000N005EFB200@mtaout28.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:41:40 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NN000KZZ5XG7F30@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Sat, 18 Apr 2015 15:41:40 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <86sibx7hos.fsf@dod.no> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:185573 Archived-At: > From: Steinar Bang > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 14:18:59 +0200 > > >>>>> Alan Mackenzie : > > > 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 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).