From ncunningham@crca.org.au Wed Jul 16 23:45:22 2008 Return-Path: X-Original-To: tuxonice-devel@lists.tuxonice.net Delivered-To: tuxonice-devel@crca.org.au X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Received: from [10.1.1.5] (home.nigel.suspend2.net [203.171.70.205]) by crca.org.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09890138004; Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:45:20 +0000 (UTC) From: Nigel Cunningham To: Kenneth Crudup In-Reply-To: References: <1216237468.9989.7.camel@nigel-laptop> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Christian Reformed Churches of Australia Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:45:19 +1000 Message-Id: <1216251919.9989.42.camel@nigel-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: tuxonice-devel@lists.tuxonice.net Subject: Re: [TuxOnIce-devel] How do you "back out" a "git pull"? X-BeenThere: tuxonice-devel@lists.tuxonice.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: TuxOnIce Development Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:45:22 -0000 Hi. On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 16:11 -0700, Kenneth Crudup wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > Finding the commit you're after could be done by: > > - using gitk and noting the (long) sha id > > - making a (temporary) branch before pulling > > and then doing git checkout -f {branchname} > > - if the reference is tagged, using the tag (eg v2.6.26) > > You could then git seek to the reference. > > > Hope that helps! > > Heh- it "helps" me realize I need to get me to a GIT ref page ASAP! I got > very little of that, conceptually. > > I dunno why Linus has such a hard-on for GIT [1]; I've used a bunch of > CM tools and just not getting what's so great about it above all others. > > -Kenny > > [1] - but I'm assuming his authorship has something to do with it It's like Linux in general - a steep learning curve, but once you get used to it you won't want to look back. I'm still on the learning curve - by no means an expert - but I like it better than bitkeeper and way better than svn, cvs, etc. Then again, I tend to wrap the commands in nice little scripts so that I don't have to remember them all the time :) Nigel