将存储库恢复为特定提交，而不会丢失其间所做的更改

Question

I need the state of my repository at a specific commit/date. I don't want to revert back, because I don't want to loose my changes.

How can I get the repository at a specific commit?

I made a research and perhaps the following would work:

git log
git clone /path/to/repository
git checkout dec5f4de67ff32fd ...

Do I get some side-effects between the cloned and the origin repository? Do I have all commits available in my cloned repository? How can I delete the cloned repository? Simply deleting the folder? I don't want a new branch - I only need the project at a specific commit.

Edit:

Now I tried git checkout xxx . It worked. Then I wanted to get back to my latest changes with git checkout master . I got the following error

error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by checkout:
Project/Resources/image.png
Please move or remove them
before you can switch branches. Aborting

The reason was that I checked out the wrong branch (not master). Now I deleted all files and used the one from a backup. If I now enter git log he only shows me the initial commit ... So I moved out of the folder with the console and back in and now he shows me the latest commits.

So be aware of what you checkout.

Answer 1

You want a copy of your repository as it was before commits? The clone will have all the commits from your original. If you want to get rid of the latest commits in the clone you have to use:

git clone /path/to/repository
git reset --hard dec5f4de67ff32fd ...

if you just checkout the commit then the newer commits are still there in the repository, only the work space will be changed to the previous commit.

More detail: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4114122/4809302