git checkout -b new_branch_name
-HEAD is now at 427abfa... Linux v2.6.17
+HEAD is now at 427abfa Linux v2.6.17
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The HEAD then refers to the SHA-1 of the commit instead of to a branch,
If you run `git branch` at this point, you'll see that Git has
temporarily moved you in "(no branch)". HEAD is now detached from any
-branch and points directly to a commit (with commit id 65934...) that
+branch and points directly to a commit (with commit id 65934) that
is reachable from "master" but not from v2.6.18. Compile and test it,
and see whether it crashes. Assume it does crash. Then:
id, and check it out with:
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-$ git reset --hard fb47ddb2db...
+$ git reset --hard fb47ddb2db
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then test, run `bisect good` or `bisect bad` as appropriate, and
continue.
Instead of `git bisect visualize` and then `git reset --hard
-fb47ddb2db...`, you might just want to tell Git that you want to skip
+fb47ddb2db`, you might just want to tell Git that you want to skip
the current commit:
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work-in-progress changes.
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-$ git stash save "work in progress for foo feature"
+$ git stash push -m "work in progress for foo feature"
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This command will save your changes away to the `stash`, and
Author:
Date:
...
-:100644 100644 4b9458b... newsha... M somedirectory/myfile
+:100644 100644 4b9458b newsha M somedirectory/myfile
commit xyz
Date:
...
-:100644 100644 oldsha... 4b9458b... M somedirectory/myfile
+:100644 100644 oldsha 4b9458b M somedirectory/myfile
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This tells you that the immediately following version of the file was
$ git log --raw --all
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-and just looked for the sha of the missing object (4b9458b..) in that
+and just looked for the sha of the missing object (4b9458b) in that
whole thing. It's up to you--Git does *have* a lot of information, it is
just missing one particular blob version.
the blob objects from these three stages yourself, like this:
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-$ git cat-file blob 263414f... >hello.c~1
-$ git cat-file blob 06fa6a2... >hello.c~2
-$ git cat-file blob cc44c73... >hello.c~3
+$ git cat-file blob 263414f >hello.c~1
+$ git cat-file blob 06fa6a2 >hello.c~2
+$ git cat-file blob cc44c73 >hello.c~3
$ git merge-file hello.c~2 hello.c~1 hello.c~3
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In the pager (`less`), just search for "bundle", go a few lines back,
-and see that it is in commit 18449ab0... Now just copy this object name,
+and see that it is in commit 18449ab0. Now just copy this object name,
and paste it into the command line
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