Git equivalent to hg update
I've used Mercurial for some time now, and am used to its workflow. Suddenly, I need to work with a Git repository, and I cannot make the install work from the head revision. In Mercurial I would just update to an earlier revision and go, but I don't see how to do that in Git.
So, how do I revert to an earlier state in a Git repository?
Solution 1:
git checkout <older revision key>
The first little bit of the hash works as a revision key, provided that it only matches that revision.