Re: About detached heads

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Geoff Russell
[off-list ref] wrote:

This should be simple! I have a series of commits:

           1---2---3---4---5

 I want to go back to 3 but not branch, so I want

           1---2---3---4---5---3

 ?

         git checkout 3...

 gets me the commit on a detached head, but I don't know how to put this back
 as the HEAD.

Two options.  Either rewrite history, nuking commits 4 & 5 :
  git reset --hard 3

or publicly reverse the changes introduced by 5 & 4 :
  git revert 5
  git revert 4

Jon