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Going back in time with Git

July 23, 2019 — Cédric Dekimpe

Let’s pretend you want to initiate a git bisect because someone (obviously you) introduced a bug in your code base. Once you launched the first git bisect bad, you have to go back in time to find a state of the code where the bug was not present and mark it as git bisect good.

You could find your way to a commit where the code was good with a bunch of git log and git checkout, but if you know when the code was right, you can use this syntax :

git checkout '@{10 days ago}'

You’re welcome, future me.