revert back on git but a merge but no -m option was given

Question

I have commit and push 2 change now i want to revert back one push from git

I have use this

sudo git revert 1c3268d4b69dc6ca9dd89e92b513f5edb194978c

but it show me

Commit 1c3268d4b69dc6ca9dd89e92b513f5edb194978c is a merge but no -m option was given

git log

commit b3972be60fb2f2c70b56f470c8327152e773f725
Author: jaskarans <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Mar 16 11:25:49 2018 +0530

    remove error 1599

commit 1c3268d4b69dc6ca9dd89e92b513f5edb194978c
Merge: 5d6fdd4 7531be0
Author: jaskarans <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Mar 16 10:23:58 2018 +0530

    Merge branch 'development' of https:// abc.com:8888/development/asdf into jQuery_update

commit 5d6fdd48cdd0b402913bf70fb64be83e676e8b21
Author: jaskarans <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Mar 16 10:21:26 2018 +0530

Borges

Answer 1

If your commit was of merge type, which you were trying to revert then you can not do it in SourceTree. Merge commits cannot be cherry-picked / reverted.

To revert merge commit you have to follow following syntax

git revert -m 1 <commit-hash> 
git commit -m "Reverting the last commit."
git push -u origin master

Emmanuelemmeline

what is -m 1, What it is doing? – Borges

It indicates that you'd like to revert to the tree of the first parent prior to the merge. – Emmanuelemmeline

@nTri: that's not quite right, you're not reverting to anything ("revert to" would imply "take the tree of", which would discard operations made by commits subsequent to the merge; git revert does not do that). – Spy

What does "first parent" mean? (Earliest CommitDate? Earliest AuthorDate? Something else?) – Threeply