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Pulling master back in time [message #787771]

Wed, 01 February 2012 00:25

Peter Drake

Messages: 17
Registered: October 2010

Junior Member

I've got a repository where HEAD is a predecessor of master. HEAD is the version I want to keep. How can I set master back to the previous version HEAD?

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Re: Pulling master back in time [message #788048 is a reply to message #787771]

Wed, 01 February 2012 09:37

Christian Halstrick

Messages: 274
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

checkout master and then reset the branch to the commit you want. Be careful: If you checkout master HEAD will point to master afterwards. You may loose your last reference to the commit you want to reset to. A safe method is: "create branch temp on current HEAD. checkout master. reset hard to temp. delete branch temp"

Ciao
Chris

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Re: Pulling master back in time [message #789352 is a reply to message #788048]

Thu, 02 February 2012 22:22

Peter Drake

Messages: 17
Registered: October 2010

Junior Member

Great -- that did the trick!

I'm not sure about the last step, though. How do I delete a branch?

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Re: Pulling master back in time [message #789670 is a reply to message #789352]

Fri, 03 February 2012 08:54

Manuel Doninger

Messages: 119
Registered: October 2010

Senior Member

In the Git Repositories view you open the Branches folder, select the branch you want to delete and do right click -> Delete Branch.
If there are commits in that branch, which you don't have merged to another (i.e. which you would lose on branch delete) you get a warning message, which you have to confirm.

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Re: Pulling master back in time [message #789866 is a reply to message #789670]

Fri, 03 February 2012 14:05

R Shapiro

Messages: 386
Registered: June 2011

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Branches can also be deleted from the 'Branches' dialog. You can get there from the 'Checkout branch, tag, or reference' toolbar item (looks like an inverted pitch-fork) or from the 'Team -> Switch To -> Other...' right-click menu item.

As noted in the previous response, the underlying operation is like

git branch -d

as opposed to

git branch -D

You have to confirm the deletion if the branch has un-merged commits.

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