How can I switch my git repository to a particular commit

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In my git repository  I made 5 commits  like below in my git log   commit 4f8b120cdafecc5144d7cdae472c36ec80315fdc Author  Michael  Date    Fri Feb 4 15 26 38 2011 -0800  commit b688d46f55db1bc304f7f689a065331fc1715079 Author  Michael Date    Mon Jan 31 10 37 42 2011 -0800  commit b364f9dcec3b0d52666c4f03eb5f6efb7e1e7bda Author  Michael Date    Wed Jan 26 13 33 17 2011 -0800  commit 4771e26619b9acba3f059b491c6c6d70115e696c Author  Michael  Date    Wed Jan 26 11 16 51 2011 -0800  commit 6e559cb951b9bfa14243b925c1972a1bd2586d59 Author  Michael  Date    Fri Jan 21 11 42 27 2011 -0800   How can I roll back my previous 4 commits locally in a branch  In other words  how can I create a branch without my latest 4 commits  assume I have the SHA of that commit from git log

User · Accepted Answer

To create a new branch  locally     With the commit hash  or part of it   git checkout -b new branch 6e559cb  or to go back 4 commits from HEAD  git checkout -b new branch HEAD 4    Once your new branch is created  locally   you might want to replicate this change on a remote of the same name  How can I push my changes to a remote branch    For discarding the last three commits  see Lunaryorn s answer below     For moving your current branch HEAD to the specified commit without creating a new branch  see Arpiagar s answer below

User · Answer

How can I roll back my previous 4 commits locally in a branch   Which means  you are not creating new branch and going into detached state  New way of doing that is  git switch --detach revison

User · Answer

Just checkout the commit you wants your new branch start from and create a new branch  git checkout -b newbranch 6e559cb95

User · Answer

If you want to throw the latest four commits away  use   git reset --hard HEAD       Alternatively  you can specify the hash of a commit you want to reset to   git reset --hard 6e559cb

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All the above commands create a new branch and with the latest commit being the one specified in the command  but just in case you want your current branch HEAD to move to the specified commit  below is the command    git checkout  lt commit hash gt    It detaches and point the HEAD to specified commit and saves from creating a new branch when the user just wants to view the branch state till that particular commit     You then might want to go back to the latest commit  amp  fix the detached HEAD   Fix a Git detached head

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