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alexgolec
alexgolec

Reputation: 28252

I want to just look at an old commit, not change my HEAD

I have an old version of a repo I want to take a look at, because I think I screwed things up in the time since that commit. Haw can I just look at that commit, without screwing up my entire repository and going to the scary detached head mode and everything?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 94

Answers (4)

Kana Natsuno
Kana Natsuno

Reputation: 1065

git archive --prefix=old/ $the_old_commit_id | tar xf -

... if you want to extract all files at the old commit. There are several ways to show files or diff at the old commit as others answered.

Additionally it's worth to investigate git blame, git bisect and git log -S if you don't know which commits introduced a problem.

Upvotes: 0

ezod
ezod

Reputation: 7421

You can use git show REVISION:file to view a specific file as of the specified revision.

Upvotes: 2

thenetimp
thenetimp

Reputation: 9820

You need to check out the commit by commit id, look in your git log for the right id. If you don't want to mess your current repo then clone it so you are working in a different place.

git checkout commitID

Upvotes: 1

Spike Gronim
Spike Gronim

Reputation: 6182

You can use "git show SHA" to show the diff for that commit. You can use "git diff SHA" to see a diff between your current workspace contents and that SHA. You can also copy your .git someplace else and check out another copy in "scary detached head mode". A final option is to use "git stash" to store your work in progress changes, then go into detached head mode.

Upvotes: 1

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