Rewind to a Specific Commit (Challenge)

Introduction

Git is a powerful version control system that allows developers to track changes made to their codebase. One of the most useful features of Git is the ability to rewind back to a specific commit. This can be helpful when you need to undo changes or revert to an earlier version of your code.

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Rewind to a Specific Commit

As a developer, you may need to undo changes made to your codebase. For example, you may have made a mistake and need to go back to an earlier version of your code. In this challenge, you will use Git to rewind back to a specific commit in a repository.

Tasks

To complete this challenge, you will use the Git repository git-playground from https://github.com/labex-labs/git-playground.git.

1. View the commit history of the repository.
2. Make sure that the commit message you want to rewind to is the "Initial commit" commit hash.
3. Rewind back to the commit hash.
4. View the commit history of the repository again.

This is the result of running git log --oneline:

c0d30f305 (HEAD -> master) Initial commit

Summary

Rewinding back to a specific commit is a useful feature of Git that allows developers to undo changes or revert to an earlier version of their code. In this challenge, you used Git to rewind back to a specific commit in a repository. Remember to use git reset to rewind back to a specific commit and git reset --hard to delete changes and revert to an earlier version of your code.