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Pragmatic Guide to Git
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Pragmatic Guide to Git

by Travis Swicegood
November 2010
Beginner content levelBeginner
160 pages
2h 50m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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36 Reverting Commits

Sometimes we make mistakes. A commit that wasn’t supposed to be shared gets pushed to a public repository, a commit has a bug that can’t be fixed and needs to be undone, or maybe you just don’t need that code any longer. These cases all call for git revert.

The git revert command does just what you might expect. It reverts a single commit by applying a reverse commit to the history.

You can call git revert with just a commit ID. Git launches the editor with the commit message already filled out. It follows this pattern:

  ​Revert "some commit message"​
  ​​
  ​This reverts commit <some commit hash>.​

You can edit this message to be whatever you want. You can use the --no-edit parameter to tell ...

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