Revert to an old commit in Bitbucket

Question

I have git setup on my web hosting and on an account at Bitbucket which are both linked.

How can I revert back to my first commit on both my hosting (which I am logged into via SSH and has git installed ready and working) and on Bitbucket?

I have tried: git checkout 965a793

Then I tried with a dot on the end: git checkout .

but nothing seems to change on the Bitbucket side, when I got to git push. It says everything is up to date, even though Bitbucket is on commit cf08232

Here is a list of my three commits:

cf08232 remove the txt file
096d08f test.txt edited online with Bitbucket
965a793 Initial Commit

Thromboplastin

Answer 1

Use --force :

 git reset --hard commitID
 git push origin branchName --force

I am assuming origin is the remote of bitbucket

Pinery

Tried "git reset --hard 965a793" then "git push origin master --force". Still Bitbucket appears unchanged. My contents of git branch -a are "master" and "remotes/origin/master" – Thromboplastin

@merch89 Reconfirm again. I check it in bitbucket now, it works for me. When you do git log, does it show anything else apart from 965a793 commit. Before you do git push origin master --force Confirm that – Pinery

This post here seems to sort it #4114595 git reset 56e05fced, git reset --soft HEAD@{1}, git commit -m "Revert to 56e05fced" , git reset --hard – Thromboplastin

@merch89 It won't be change in bitbucket. You need to use --force while pushing. – Pinery

And --hard does that. I have verified it. Are you giving --hard and then force? – Pinery

The exact code posted above does the job both locally and bitbucket. Didn't use the --force command either. Thanks for your help. – Thromboplastin

If you are pushing something in bitbucket and it conflicts, bitbucket won't allow. – Pinery

This is great, if I only knew that when Bitbucket rejects, only thing you need to do is force... :) – Parttime

Answer 2

Please note git reset is dangerous. I personally am not a fan because it deletes/modifies change history. If you want to rollback your changes to a specific commit without modifying the change history, I suggest using git revert instead:

git revert cf08232
git revert 096d08f

Each time you run git revert, it will create a new commit that undoes the changes introduced by a specific prior commit, without modifying the change history.

Here's a good article that compares reset, checkout & revert.

Waterhouse

Totally agree that reset and force push is not recommended, especially if many other people are working on the same repo. – Michel

Answer 3

Use revert for rollback your past commit and push.

$git revert <commitId>
$git push

Minoan

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