Git remove last commits from remote made by someone else

Question

So, my situation is (by mistake) I have given access to a person to commit to my branch. Now in my local I have made a commit and when I tried to push it to the remote it shows that the remote is ahead. Because the other person has pushed his code to this branch with several commits. Now, can I remove those commits from remote without taking pull to my local?

I tried to do this git push origin +<<commit number>>^:branch

But it says src refspec <<commit number>>^ does not match any.

Moraceous

Why don't you git push -f origin <<branch>> . The -f will destroy the origin tree and replace it by your local one. If you do not want to force push, as fat as i know, you can't rebuilt the tree without pulling the modifications – Exosphere

Ok so I can do this without taking pull right? – Moraceous

Yes, this is a regular push (it just rewrite the commit tree) – Exosphere

Answer 1

Please try this

git push origin <<branch_name>> -f

In this -f if used for force push

This will remove commits that are made by someone else.

Decrepitude