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how to checkout previous commit without detaching head.md

Most of the time when I do this I checkout to a temp branch:

> git checkout -b temp-branch-name ea3d5ed039edd6d4a07cc41bd09eb58edd1f2b3a

Then after I'm done i just delete the branch

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