Checking out an old commit and maintaining the head on the master branch?

Question

Currently for switching to another git commit (on the same branch...actually, on the master branch!), I\'m executing the command

git checkout ea3d5ed039edd6d         


        

Answer 1

Most of the time when I do this I checkout to a temp branch:

git checkout -b temp-branch-name ea3d5ed039edd6d4a07cc41bd09eb58edd1f2b3a

Then after I'm done i just delete the branch