How to get back to most recent version in Git?

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I have recently moved from SVN to Git and am a bit confused about something. I needed to run the previous version of a script through a debugger, so I did git checkout <previous version hash> and did what I needed to do.

Now I want to get back to the newest version, but I don't know the hash for it. When I type git log, I don't see it.

How can I do this? Also, is there an easier way to change versions than by typing out hashes - something like "go back two versions" or "go to the most chronologically recent"?

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10 Answers

Some of the answers here assume you are on master branch before you decided to checkout an older commit. This is not always the case.

git checkout -

Will point you back to the branch you were previously on (regardless if it was master or not).

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With Git 2.23+ (August 2019), the best practice would be to use git switch instead of the confusing git checkout command.

To create a new branch based on an older version:

git switch -c temp_branch HEAD~2

To go back to the current master branch:

git switch master
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