Rayhan, On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:09 AM, RAYHAN MUKTADER <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was wondering if there is way to to checkout and test different > commits without destroying the new commits. > > I've always used RCS and I've gotten used to doing that. > Yes, you can do exactly that, simply by checking out that commit. Let's say the sha of the 4th commit backwards in time is ffa0, you'll simply "git checkout ffa0". > Lets say I find a bug after making five commits. Is it possible for > me to checkout the the third commit, test it and then if I find > nothing wrong there can I check out either the fourth commit or the > fifth commit? Thank you in advance for your input > You may want to look into git bisect for this. Bisect (git bisect help for instructions) lets you mark a "good" revision and a "bad" revision and then binary searches for the commit that introduced the bug. This seems to be more or less what you're looking for? Regards, - Marius -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gitorious" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gitorious?hl=en.
