How To Go Back to Previous Commits: Understanding Git Reset vs. Git Checkout

Ketan Gupta
2 min readSep 26, 2023

Introduction:

Git provides developers with powerful tools to manage version control, and two common commands for navigating your commit history are `git reset` and `git checkout`. In this tutorial, we’ll explore both methods step by step and help you understand when to choose one over the other.

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Ketan Gupta

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