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

The question is a bit vague, but if you want to just change files in your working tree, you can simply do this:

git checkout [commit|branch] -- .

You can then stage the changes and create a new commit if you wish. This is pretty useful sometimes.