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To find out the order number (or how manyeth) the latest commit is in a Github repository, open up the command line in the folder of your repository and type in:
git rev-list --count HEADFind out the number of a commit using it’s SHA:
git rev-list --count <commit-SHA-1>
git rev-list --count 0b26b659f33332c70ebaa962d21171c5ffda27e5
In this video we are loading an older version of a Github repository in order to inspect the code at an earlier point.
If you are using the amazing free InstantWP WordPress development package often, then you might start wondering how to properly use it with Git version control. The difficulty is that trying to add the entire Linux Alpine virtual operating system to Git is too heavy, but adding only the contents of the Theme folder will not keep track of your posts and other database related content. I will outline the steps I used to get Git working with IWP below:
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