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How do I fork a project at a given point? (lemmy.world)
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I'm thinking on writing some tutorial on de-sloppifying some open-source projects, with I'm likely ending up at least starting some of them.

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[-] 0xDEADBEEFCAFE@programming.dev 7 points 1 day ago

A shorter example:

git clone https://codeberg.org/yourname/yournewrepo
cd yournewrepo
git reset --hard abcdef1 # commit that you want to reset to
git push --force origin

Note that instead of abcdef1 in git reset you can also use the regular expression syntax. So if the commit was named Last release before unwanted changes you would say git reset --hard ':/Last release before unwanted changes'.

this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2026
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