Re: git question: how do I get a specific git version into my working directory?

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Eli.

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 03:42:42PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Steinar Bang <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 14:18:59 +0200

> > >>>>> Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>:

> > > Hello, Emacs.
> > > A simple question (I hope):  How do I get a specific SW revision into my
> > > working directory.  I want to do something like this:

> > >    git <command> 7e09ef09a479731d01b1ca46e94ddadd73ac98e3

> > > git checkout doesn't seem to be the thing.

> > "git checkout 7e09ef09a479731d01b1ca46e94ddadd73ac98e3" should work.

> It also creates a "detached HEAD", so Alan should IMO be aware of
> that, and return to the upstream head ASAP (or, better, do all of this
> in a separate branch to begin with).

I'm aware of it, now!  Given that I'm not intending to do any VCS
operation on this, other than "git checkout <revision number>", I should
be all right, surely?  I'm expecting (?hoping) that on switching back to
the HEAD revision, the detached head (?all detached heads) will vanish.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).