How do I go back to previous Git Commit?

Question

How do I go back to previous commit?

I would like my files to look exactly like all my files did when I committed the below commit.

$ git log
commit 81cf7fa47adc0923aeabe323778e2783f2e832f5
Date:   Thu Apr 2 21:32:27 2015 +1000

I looked around an so many people have different answers.

Answer 1

You can always checkout to specific commit in git by following command

git checkout commit_hash

So in you case it will be

git checkout 81cf7fa47adc0923aeabe323778e2783f2e832f5

Or HEAD@{1} is the pointer to the one commit back so following will do the same

git checkout HEAD@{1}