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Sam Hayward
Sam Hayward
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Posted by Sam Hayward
Sam Hayward
11,673 Points

Github / Github for Windows. Play with previous version

Hey, I'm using Github for Windows at the moment. My code is doing some weird things so I just want to have a temporary folder containing one of the previous versions of my project. I'm sure it's very simple but it seems kinda confusing. How do I go about it?

Any help much appreciated. Cheers =)

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Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
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Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

Part of the beauty of using version control like Git is that you can switch between versions of your code without creating temp folders or anything else. Typically if I'm at a point where my code is whacky and I just want a fresh start without loosing what I'm working on, then I just create a new branch, throw the whacked out stuff to that branch and then revert the branch I was working on back to a commit that I know was working.

As to not avoid your question: If you really need to create a temp folder then you are going to just need to clone your project to that folder. Simply create a new folder and clone your repository into that folder.

Sam Hayward
Sam Hayward
11,673 Points
Sam Hayward
Sam Hayward
11,673 Points

Thanks for this =)