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How to clone and deploy a historical commit

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You can checkout a particular commit using the command:

git checkout <commit-id>

Now, if you want to do more commits over this, you'll need to create a new branch:

git checkout -b <branch-name> <commit-id>

Siddhartha Reddy 2010-04-30 07:16:25

Do i need to reclone the repository, and the do the checkout , and then git add and then git commit (as i normally would) ?? im really confused

r2b2 2010-04-30 07:26:17

There is no need to clone the repository again, you can work off your current clone.

Siddhartha Reddy 2010-04-30 07:43:28

r2b2, I suggest that you go through some git tutorials and understand branching in greater depth. A lot of the power of git lies in easy branching.

Siddhartha Reddy 2010-04-30 07:46:32

@Reddy: well, actually you could also do `git checkout <commit-id>` and work on detached HEAD / unnamed branch, and only when you decide that the changes are worth keeping create a new branch for them via `git checkout -b <branch-name>`. Just FYI.

Jakub Narębski 2010-04-30 10:06:06

@Narębski, Thanks. `git checkout <commit-id>` also prints out a help message that gives essentially that same information.

Siddhartha Reddy 2010-04-30 15:51:56

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