Re: Help with git - fetch earlier src version
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 18:33:37 UTC
On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 5:09 AM Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote: > On 12/21/22 05:56, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > > I am facing the same issue as in > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=268492 > > or possibly > > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=267421 > > with a T490 laptop. > > > > Can someone please help with the git command to fetch an earlier > > version, for example the one for the amd64 December 9th. snapshot? > > If you already have a checkout of stable/13, you made no local > changes, you don't share that repo with anyone, and wanted to roll it > back to a76fa7bb6cb721bcccc257ddbc4398d25dc8def8 which came 2022-12-08 > 01:18:32 +0000 just before a linuxkpi patch: > > git reset --hard a76fa7bb6cb721bcccc257ddbc4398d25dc8def8 > "reset"? Would "checkout" not work ... git checkout a76fa7bb6cb721bcc ... ? When you want to return to the previous state you can run: > > git merge > "merge" would add a useless point in the history, as I see no changes being made or suggested. Why should not use "reset" again as earlier (to switch to "stable/13")? And, to switch back to "stable/13", use "checkout" or "switch" ... git switch stable/13 - parv > I thought --soft should work or excluding that parameter entirely to > change your tree to that commit and that --hard destroys records of > future commits from your git tree but that doesn't seem to be the case. > You could also create another branch and revert just select commits > from it so you can otherwise include useful changes (presuming they do > not also depend on the reverted changes). > ...