On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:07:05 -0500
"David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@...> wrote:

> On 04/28/2012 08:27 AM, E. Liddell wrote:
> > I poked the git server at freedesktop.org, where poppler resides,
> > and found what appears to be the series of commits that removed QT3
> > support (five on Jan. 16, 2011, plus an outlier about a month
> > later).  Full diffs for these commits are stored, so depending on
> > how much the codebase has changed in the past year, we may be able
> > to just revert them.
> 
> That would be fantastic. I may still have all the older poppler
> sources (somewhere). I we can just revert the changes in the current
> code, that would be the best case, but if not, I have the last
> freedesktop sources before the commits. I'll hunt them down if
> needed, but I guess you GIT masters could just tell freedesktop to
> spit the code out as it existed on 1/15/2011.
> 
> For my education -- "How do you do that?" Say I wanted to clone the
> repository as it existed prior to the 1/16/2011 changes, what would
> the git command look like?
IIRC:

git clone <the repository>
git checkout <the sha1 you want> .