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Jordan Powell
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Jordan Powell
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Posted by Jordan Powell
Jordan Powell
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Why did it show me the updates

I used the git log to view the commits. I used git checkout ##### to view a specific log, but when i used the cat function It showed the changes. Why is it doing that?

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Nikola Jankovic
Nikola Jankovic
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Nikola Jankovic
Nikola Jankovic
10,793 Points

I don't understand your question very good, so I will try to explain in general. When you use git checkout on a specific commit that is like "traveling through time" when the change happened. If you want to see state after last commit type git checkout master...