git check out error pathspec

Question

I'm new in git and ruby on rails, i'm trying to recover an other day work with git, so I type "git log" and i can see my "commits" for the repository in my application directory:

commit 016a8807427c46087762b56e1ea02abc Author: Antonio Date: Mon Feb 4 11:32:32 2013 +0100 session errors commit cc3c292ffd110414cf4db54c5b976f2f Author: Antonio Date: Sun Feb 3 21:02:59 2013 +0100 hw2_c commit af2a509d462e454d0315c63ce98ad6d0 Author: Antonio Date: Sun Feb 3 20:34:55 2013 +0100 hw2_elementsId commit 2314687a32c7f56ff8fc8557d95af3df Author: Antonio Date: Sun Feb 3 20:25:23 2013 +0100 hw2_b

But when i try to checkout any commit, I receive always the same error message:

git checkout hw2_c error: pathspec 'hw2_c' did not match any file(s) known to git.

Can anyone help me?

Carl Norum · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-06 18:28:59Z

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You can't check out a commit by its message. You need to check out using the hash:

git checkout cc3c292ffd110414cf4db54c5b976f2f

If you want a symbolic name, make a branch or tag at that hash:

git branch hw2_c cc3c292ffd110414cf4db54c5b976f2f git tag hw2_c cc3c292ffd110414cf4db54c5b976f2f

answered Feb 6, 2013 at 18:28

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Lorraine Over a year ago

Thank very much, it work perfectly, then, when I do a commit with: git commit -m "hw2_c" the hw2_c is only a comentary about that commit?

Carl Norum Over a year ago

Yes, that's right. The commit is identified by its hash, which takes into account the tree state, commit message, comitter name & email, and time/date of the commit.

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