How do I go to a particular version of a file in the Git repository

Question

Hi Guys,

I cloned a git repository of a certain project. I want to check the initial code of a file. How to do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can use git checkout <sha1> to check out a particular commit. Where <sha1> is the commit unique number that you can obtain with the git log command.

$ git checkout <sha1>