Depends what you want to do when you get there really. Disclaimer: --hard will wipe out any changes you have in your WC
This will move your current branch to point to that commit... git reset --hard 72164060176afd82227b03e05aede0ce292f093f But this applies to the whole git checkout, not a subtree (as i think i remember you could do with svn...) On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 2:06 PM Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > I just committed an update to the lighttpd port, but now I want to get > back to the previous version. > > With svn, I would have done: > > cd $(port dir lighttpd) > svn up -r 151090 > > How do I do this with git? > > I tried: > > cd $(port dir lighttpd) > git checkout 72164060176afd82227b03e05aede0ce292f093f > > git complained: > > error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by > checkout: > net/curl/Portfile > Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches. > Aborting > > I don't want to commit or stash or do anything else to files not in the > current directory. I only want the files in the current directory > temporarily rolled back to a previous state for testing. > >
