How do I move forward and backward between commits in git?

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I am doing a git bisect and after arriving to the problematic commit, I am now trying to get a step forward/backward to make sure I am in the right one.

I know of HEAD^ to go backwards in history but is there another shortcut to get me forward (towards a specific commit in the future) like so:

A - B - C(HEAD) - D - E - F

I know that my target is F and I want to move from C to D.

NOTE: this is not a duplicate of Git: How to move back and forth between commits, my question is slightly different and is not answered there

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15 Answers

Traversing backward is trivial since you are moving down the tree, and there's always one way to go

  function git_down
        git checkout HEAD^
  end

When traversing forward you are moving up the tree, so you need to be explicit which branch you are targeting:

  function git_up 
        git log --reverse --pretty=%H $argv | grep -A 1 (git rev-parse HEAD) | tail -n1 | xargs git checkout
  end

Usage: git down, git up <branch-name>

user_2199310

If you want to see ahead, you can do this trick, as Git doesn't have strict command for it.

git log --reverse COMMIT_HASH..

Example

List of log history hashes:

A
B
C -> put this
D

using command git log --reverse C.., in output you will see B and A.

user_4867180 
branchName=master; commitInOrder=1; git checkout $(git log --pretty=%H "${branchName}" | tac | head -n "${commitInOrder}" | tail -n 1)

where:

branchName equals branch name

commitInOrder equals a commit in order from very first commit in the selected branch (so 1 is the very first commit, 2 is second commit in branch, etc.)

user_104706240

To GUI and vscode users I would recommend using the extension git graph

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user_6180990

I would use git-reflog and git-reset.

It is not the same case as you run git-bisect, but suppose you git-reset to commit C and want to move it back to commit F.

At the point, git-reflog looks like this:

$ git reflog show
4444444 (HEAD -> main) HEAD@{0}: reset: moving to 4444444
1111111 HEAD@{1}: commit: F
2222222 HEAD@{2}: commit: E
3333333 HEAD@{3}: commit: D
4444444 (HEAD -> main) HEAD@{4}: commit: C
5555555 HEAD@{5}: commit: B
6666666 HEAD@{6}: commit: A

Then, you can run git-reset to go back to any commit by specifying SHA1 hash or offset number from HEAD.

In your case, run git-reset as follows:

$ git reset 1111111

or

$ git reset HEAD@{1}
user_20143800

The shortest way to move forward for one commit is:

git checkout @{1}

user_5143290
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