Re: How to check out the repository at a particular point in time

Michael Witten wrote:

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 15:18, R. Diez [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I still don't quite understand how git works, but let me
risk a naive statement here. If "a-b-c-M" were 'master',
and "d-e-f" were 'new-feature', then on April 1st the
current version on 'master' is 'b', because I merged the
'new-feature' branch at a later point in time. Does that
make sense?

O! for the love all that is Holy!

Wait, what's wrong with what R. Diez said?  It's exactly what
--first-parent gives you.