How to checkout in Git by date?

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To keep your current changes

You can keep your work stashed away, without commiting it, with git stash. You
would than use git stash pop to get it back. Or you can (as carleeto said) git commit it to a separate branch.

Checkout by date using rev-parse

You can checkout a commit by a specific date using rev-parse like this:

git checkout 'master@{1979-02-26 18:30:00}'

More details on the available options can be found in the git-rev-parse.

As noted in the comments this method uses the reflog to find the commit in your history. By default these entries expire after 90 days. Although the syntax for using the reflog is less verbose you can only go back 90 days.

Checkout out by date using rev-list

The other option, which doesn’t use the reflog, is to use rev-list to get the commit at a particular point in time with:

git checkout `git rev-list -n 1 --first-parent --before="2009-07-27 13:37" master`

Note the –first-parent if you want only your history and not versions brought in by a merge. That’s what you usually want.

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