how to go to a commit from history of commits in git?

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I deleted one file after my first commit, and I want to know how can I revert back to that commit state (all files in working dir to that state). Can someone please help me with this?

$ git log
commit 2e8bd07a1f7446d2acef86f854ad57dabe4e5834
Author: Sam <sam@mysite.com>
Date:   Sun Aug 21 00:21:12 2016 +030

    baseline

g@DESKTOP MINGW64 /c/mydir (master)

Possible duplicate of [How to revert Git repository to a previous commit?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4114095/how-to-revert-git-repository-to-a-previous-commit) — melpomene, Aug 20 '16 at 20:12
I didn't understand a thing from that post, way too complicated for a newbie like me! Please give me a simple answer — user2548663, Aug 20 '16 at 20:17

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 20 '16 at 20:15

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You can use :

$ git log

and then checkout the commit :

$ git checkout 2e8bd07a1f7446d2acef86f854ad57dabe4e5834

answered Aug 20 '16 at 20:15

chenchuk

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already tried that! it does not work! -> does not bring back the files to working dir! – user2548663 Aug 20 '16 at 20:19

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 20 '16 at 20:24

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You can use git checkout FILE to revert a file in the working directory back to its committed state. This also works for whole directories, so git checkout . will recursively revert all files in the current directory.

answered Aug 20 '16 at 20:24

melpomene

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Prefer `git checkout -- FILE`, to avoid ambiguities with branch names. – jub0bs Aug 20 '16 at 20:48

how to go to a commit from history of commits in git?

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