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Can you explain what HEAD~5..HEAD does?

Rutger Hofste
– Rutger Hofste

2017-10-12 16:10:54 +00:00
Commented Oct 12, 2017 at 16:10
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@RutgerHofste It described the range of commits between HEAD (i.e. the currently checkout commit) and 5 commits before HEAD. The git revert would thus create revert commits for the last 5 commits. Similarly, the git reset command would move the current branch 5 commits back. See this blog post for a nice explanation on how to specify relativ commits for commands.

Holger Just
– Holger Just

2017-10-12 16:45:42 +00:00
Commented Oct 12, 2017 at 16:45

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