A git revert is just another commit, so e.g. push to the remote so that other users can pull/fetch/merge the changes and you're done. Do you have to commit the changes revert made or does revert directly commit to the repo? git revert is a commit - there are no extra steps assuming reverting a single commit is what you wanted to do.

Nov 6, 2010 · git commit The git-revert manpage actually covers a lot of this in its description. Another useful link is this git-scm.com section discussing git-revert. If you decide you didn't want to revert after all, you can revert the revert (as described here) or reset back to before the revert (see the previous section).

If you want to revert the last commit, you can use git revert head. head refers to the most recent commit in your branch. The reason you use head~1 when using reset is that you are telling Git to "remove all changes in the commits after" (reset --hard) "the commit one before head" (head~1). reset is to a commit, revert is on a commit.

git cherry-pick <original commit sha> Will make a copy of the original commit, essentially re-applying the commit Reverting the revert will do the same thing, with a messier commit message: git revert <commit sha of the revert> Either of these ways will allow you to git push without overwriting history, because it creates a new commit after the ...

Oct 24, 2014 · By default git revert refuses to revert a merge commit as what that actually means is ambiguous. I presume that your HEAD is in fact a merge commit. If you want to revert the merge commit, you have to specify which parent of the merge you want to consider to be the main trunk, i.e. what you want to revert to. Often this will be parent number one, for example if you …

Jul 18, 2009 · To revert changes made to your working copy, do this: git checkout . Or equivalently, for git version >= 2.23: git restore . To revert changes made to the index (i.e., that you have added), do this. Warning this will reset all of your unpushed commits to master!: git reset To revert a change that you have committed: git revert <commit 1> <commit 2> To remove …

Mar 24, 2015 · Revert in git is a commit too. So you can simply revert a revert as usual commit: git revert <revert_you_want_to_undo_sha1>

I accidentally committed the wrong files to Git but haven't pushed the commit to the server yet. How do I undo those commits from the local repository?

Jun 29, 2014 · With git log, I get a list of commits that I have made so far. commit f5c5cac0033439c17ebf905d4391dc0705dbd5f1 Author: prosseek Date: Fri Sep 3 14:36:59 2010 -0500 ...

Nov 22, 2012 · git reset --hard HEAD@ {x} //where x is the head just before the rebase This works and reverts the changes on my local branch but then I don't know what to make the remote branch update to that since it doesn't create a new commit that can be pushed to the remote.