lab 33 Resetting the Master Branch

Goals

Reset the master branch 01

When we added the interactive mode to the master branch, we made a change that conflicted with changes in the greet branch. Let’s rewind the master branch to a point before the conflicting change. This allows us to demonstrate the rebase command without worrying about conflicts.

Execute:

git checkout master
git hist

Output:

$ git hist
* 05f32c0 2013-04-13 | Made interactive (HEAD, master) [Jim Weirich]
* b59a8c2 2013-04-13 | Added README [Jim Weirich]
* 96ee164 2013-04-13 | Added a Rakefile. [Jim Weirich]
* 0f36766 2013-04-13 | Moved hello.rb to lib [Jim Weirich]
* eb30103 2013-04-13 | Add an author/email comment [Jim Weirich]
* 1f7ec5e 2013-04-13 | Added a comment (v1) [Jim Weirich]
* 582495a 2013-04-13 | Added a default value (v1-beta) [Jim Weirich]
* 323e28d 2013-04-13 | Using ARGV [Jim Weirich]
* 9416416 2013-04-13 | First Commit [Jim Weirich]

The ‘Added README’ commit is the one directly before the conflicting interactive mode. We will reset the master branch to ‘Added README’ branch.

Execute:

git reset --hard <hash>
git hist --all

Review the log. It should look like the repository has been wound back in time to the point before we merged anything.

Output:

$ git hist --all
* b59a8c2 2013-04-13 | Added README (HEAD, master) [Jim Weirich]
| * 28917a4 2013-04-13 | Updated Rakefile (greet) [Jim Weirich]
| * 4dac415 2013-04-13 | Hello uses Greeter [Jim Weirich]
| * 39347b3 2013-04-13 | Added greeter class [Jim Weirich]
|/  
* 96ee164 2013-04-13 | Added a Rakefile. [Jim Weirich]
* 0f36766 2013-04-13 | Moved hello.rb to lib [Jim Weirich]
* eb30103 2013-04-13 | Add an author/email comment [Jim Weirich]
* 1f7ec5e 2013-04-13 | Added a comment (v1) [Jim Weirich]
* 582495a 2013-04-13 | Added a default value (v1-beta) [Jim Weirich]
* 323e28d 2013-04-13 | Using ARGV [Jim Weirich]
* 9416416 2013-04-13 | First Commit [Jim Weirich]

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