Temporarily switch working copy to a specific Git commit

Question

How to switch to specific Git commit without losing all the commits made after it   I want that local files will be changed  but commits  database will remain intact  only the current position pointer is set to currently selected commit   I want to change files  state to specific commit  run project and  when finished  restore files back to last commit   How to do this without zipping the whole project s folder

User · Accepted Answer

If you are at a certain branch mybranch  just go ahead and git checkout commit hash  Then you can return to your branch by git checkout mybranch  I had the same game bisecting a bug today    Also  you should know about git bisect

User · Answer

In addition to the other answers here showing you how to git checkout  lt the-hash-you-want gt  it s worth knowing you can switch back to where you were using   git checkout   -1    This is often more convenient than   git checkout what-was-that-original-branch-called-again-question-mark   As you might anticipate  git checkout   -2  will take you back to the branch you were at two git checkouts ago  and similarly for other numbers  If you can remember where you were for bigger numbers  you should get some kind of medal for that     Sadly for productivity  git checkout   1  does not take you to the branch you will be on in future  which is a shame

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First  use git log to see the log  pick the commit you want  note down the sha1 hash that is used to identify the commit  Next  run git checkout hash  After you are done  git checkout original branch  This has the advantage of not moving the HEAD  it simply switches the working copy to a specific commit

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