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Posted by MUZ140884 Maxwell Makumucha
MUZ140884 Maxwell Makumucha
6,291 Points

challenge task 9of 11.... Git basics

some help me how to go about this challenge:

HEAD~1 is a special commit identifier in git; it stands for the previous commit (not the one we just made, but the one before that). Can you use that identifier to check out the previous commit in this repository?

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William Li
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William Li
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William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

bothxp 's answer is correct.

And i'd like to add another thing to the discussion here.

There's a Get Help button that would allows you to post question to the forum directly from within the Code Challenge.

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I'd strongly suggest that you do it this way, as it also embeds the Code Challenge link into the question you post here, that way the people who are answering the question may navigate to the original challenge in 1 click.

Cheers :)

MUZ140884 Maxwell Makumucha
MUZ140884 Maxwell Makumucha
6,291 Points

yea, thanks i get it

bothxp
bothxp
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bothxp
bothxp
16,510 Points

So it is asking you to check out a commit, using the HEAD~1 identifier.

git checkout HEAD~1

(Task 9 from https://teamtreehouse.com/library/an-oldfashioned-gittogether)