Revert a specific commit from a merged branch that has already been pushed

Question

I was just reading the post below and I had a question I was hoping someone would know the answer to.

How to revert a merge commit that's already pushed to remote branch?

So I know that I can completely revert a merge commit from my master by specifying its parent branch in the git revert -m command. My question is can I revert a single commit from that merged branch rather than the entire branch.

For example I branch from master to feature_1 branch. I make 14 commits on the feature_1 branch and merge back to my master, which I then push.

How would I go about removing commit 7 of the merged branch from the master while leaving the other 13 in the master. Hopefully its possible and thanks in advance for any replies or comments.

Deodorant

possible duplicate of https://mcmap.net/q/45904/-undo-a-particular-commit-in-git-that-39-s-been-pushed-to-remote-repos/4286990. – Cautious

Thanks vatsal, I made the assumption that reverting commits that were inside a merge would be harder to do than reverting a normal commit because of the -m option needed when reverting a merge. Turns out I was wrong. Thanks again – Deodorant

Answer 1

Step 1: Identify the <sha1> of the commit you'd like to revert.

Step 2: Do this on the master branch:

$ git revert <sha1>

That will create a new commit that revert the commit identified by <sha1>.

Approach

Wow I feel dumb, I just assumed because it was part of a merge I would need to take that into consideration. My apologies for asking such a silly question. – Deodorant