How to checkout commit in GitKraken?

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Black picture Black · Oct 11, 2016 · Viewed 21.7k times · Source

It seems to be impossible to checkout commits with GitKraken.

Gitkraken commits options

As you can see there is no option to checkout older commits, only Cherrypick commit but I don't know what this is good for.

EDIT: I was able to checkout with another git program (git bash) via console:

console

Now it looks like this in GitKraken:

gitkraken current head on specific commit

Answer

poke picture poke · Oct 11, 2016

GitKraken (as of version 1.7) does not seem to offer a way to get into a detached HEAD mode, and check out a commit directly. Similarly, it will also not allow you to check out a tag (since that would also give you a detached HEAD).

So instead, you will have to create a (temporary) branch first which you can then check out.

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