Thanks for the reply. although I was hoping you would tell me something that can be done from the GUI. So I guess I will be on that learning curve for a while.
On Sep 30, 2:37 am, Marius Mårnes Mathiesen <marius.mathie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mercenary > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Mercenary <abehi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am trying out git right now on windows(msysGIT) and I think it is a > > great VC system but it can be tedious to use at times. Say that I > > want to undo a change to a file, to which had already committed to. My > > understanding is that I can use git revert hashcode to undo a specific > > change. The hash code you see in GIT log are 140 bytes long, therefore > > that means alot of typing just undo a change. Is there some kind of > > plugin or addon I can use to copy and paste to and from the GIT BASH > > console? > > First of all, you don't need to enter the entire sha to identify a commit, > the first few letters will usually be sufficient. So if your commit's sha is > 5d17b1fcb08fb5aefc9d030250ffd58c4631dcd8, you should be able to get by by > entering > > git revert 5d17b > > as long as this is the only commit in your repository that starts with that > part of the sha. But you can also specify a commit by its relation to a > known branch/tag in git. If you enter "git help rev-parse" on your command > line and locate the "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section you'll find lots of > helpful hints to get you going. > > The git source distribution also contains a set of bash completion functions > (see contrib/completions in the source tree) that should be useful for > command line completion. > > Good luck! > > - Marius --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gitorious" group. To post to this group, send email to gitorious@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gitorious+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gitorious?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
