How to get back to most recent version in Git

Question

I have recently moved from SVN to Git and am a bit confused about something  I needed to run the previous version of a script through a debugger  so I did git checkout  lt previous version hash gt  and did what I needed to do   Now I want to get back to the newest version  but I don t know the hash for it  When I type git log  I don t see it   How can I do this  Also  is there an easier way to change versions than by typing out hashes - something like  go back two versions  or  go to the most chronologically recent

User · Answer

To return to the latest version   git checkout  lt branch-name gt     For example  git checkout master or git checkout dev

User · Answer

This did the trick for me  I still was on the master branch    git reset --hard origin master

User · Answer

I am just beginning to dig deeper into git  so not sure if I understand correctly  but I think the correct answer to the OP s question is that you can run git log --all with a format specification like this  git log --all --pretty format   h   s  d   This marks the current checked out version as  HEAD  and you can just grab the next one from the list   BTW  add an alias like this to your  gitconfig with a slightly better format and you can run git hist --all     hist   log --pretty format    h  ai    s d   an    --graph   Regarding the relative versions  I found this post  but it only talks about older versions  there is probably nothing to refer to the newer versions

User · Answer

When you go back to a previous version     git checkout HEAD 2 Previous HEAD position was 363a8d7    Fixed a bug  32   You can see your feature log hash  with this command even in this situation     git log master --oneline -5 4b5f9c2 Fixed a bug  34 9820632 Fixed a bug  33       master can be replaced with another branch name   Then checkout it  you ll be able to get back to the feature     git checkout 4b5f9c2 HEAD is now at 4b5f9c2    Fixed a bug  34

User · Answer

Some of the answers here assume you are on master branch before you decided to checkout an older commit  This is not always the case   git checkout -   Will point you back to the branch you were previously on  regardless if it was master or not

User · Answer

When you checkout to a specific commit  git creates a detached branch  So  if you call      git branch    You will see something like      detached from 3i4j25    master   other branch   To come back to the master branch head you just need to checkout to your master branch again      git checkout master   This command will automatically delete the detached branch   If git checkout doesn t work you probably have modified files conflicting between branches  To prevent you to lose code git requires you to deal with these files  You have three options     Stash your modifications  you can pop them later      git stash  Discard the changes reset-ing the detached branch     git reset --hard  Create a new branch with the previous modifications and commit them     git checkout -b my new branch   git add my file ext   git commit -m  My cool msg     After this you can go back to your master branch  most recent version      git checkout master

User · Answer

A more elegant and simple solution is to use   git stash   It will return to the most resent local version of the branch and also save your changes in stash  so if you like to undo this action do   git stash apply

User · Answer

With Git 2 23   August 2019   the best practice  would be to use git switch instead of the confusing git checkout command   To create a new branch based on an older version   git switch -c temp branch HEAD 2   To go back to the current master branch   git switch master

User · Answer

You can check out using branch names  for one thing   I know there are several ways to move the HEAD around  but I ll leave it to a git expert to enumerate them   I just wanted to suggest gitk --all -- I found it enormously helpful when starting with git

User · Answer

git checkout master should do the trick  To go back two versions  you could say something like git checkout HEAD 2  but better to create a temporary branch based on that time  so git checkout -b temp branch HEAD 2

[git] How to get back to most recent version in Git?

Examples related to git

Examples related to git-checkout