git-revert Questions

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I know that you can revert back to a previous commit but it doesn't sound like the history will be gone. How can I revert back to a previous commit and make sure the commits that came after are gon...
Shorthand asked 17/12, 2020 at 23:40

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Hey I'm new to git and I need to undo a pull, can anyone help?!? So what I've done is... git commit git stash git pull --rebase git stash pop this created a bunch of conflicts and went a bit wr...
Chalcocite asked 6/2, 2010 at 13:28

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I'm working with a repository where a merge was performed weeks ago which we just discovered used the --strategy=ours flag (it was supposed to use the --strategy-option=ours flag), thus not applyin...
Fattish asked 8/1, 2013 at 23:26

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I use Git, and I know that: git revert <hash-code> is used to create a new commit that will be identical to the past commit in the hash-code. For example, I have the following commits: 1f74a...
Trigger asked 18/9, 2017 at 8:45

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I had a feature branch created, let's say feature/branch1 on github. I created a pull request for it and got it merged. When it reached our pipeline, we figured there was a problem and we got it...
Verisimilitude asked 5/4, 2017 at 4:22

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I have a Git repository that looks like this: A <- B <- C <- D <- HEAD I want the head of the branch to point to A, i.e., I want B, C, D, and HEAD to disappear and I want head to be sy...
Seriatim asked 23/9, 2009 at 0:27

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When trying to revert a specific commit in git, I'm getting this error: $ git revert aaaf93201a28a57d540d633b1b723b8e513a47ed error: Reverting is not possible because you have unmerged files. hint...
Wernsman asked 8/1, 2018 at 13:44

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I have run into a bit of a problem here: I had a problem-specific branch 28s in Git, that I merged in the general develop branch. Turns out I had done it too fast, so I used git-revert to undo the ...
Landin asked 3/7, 2009 at 7:15

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I'm learning how to use git these days and I had to do many hit-and-misses. Thus I needed to delete and create anew my remote and local repos. Is there a way to roll back to the first commit of the...
Cosette asked 11/5, 2013 at 17:32

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I accidentally removed the entire directory of my source code...with a nice rm -r. I know, really bad; but fortunately, I had a git repo in the containing directory. Thus, git has a huge list of un...
Schnurr asked 23/7, 2014 at 13:28

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How can I go about rolling back to a specific commit in git? The best answer someone could give me was to use git revert X times until I reach the desired commit. So let's say I want to revert b...
Alphonsoalphonsus asked 5/1, 2010 at 17:1

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Steps I performed: I have two branches branch1 and branch2, $git branch --Initial state $branch1 $git checkout branch2 $git pull origin branch1 --Step1 I resolve the conflicts and did a $git comm...
Jabber asked 21/9, 2012 at 16:20

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I have reverted a pull request from GitHub by following this article https://help.github.com/articles/reverting-a-pull-request/. Now even after reverting when I am comparing the two branch it shows...
Vish asked 20/3, 2018 at 13:56

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Is there a way to revert an old commit without changing the files in the working directory? I made a commit a while back, but the code that I committed wasn't ready and I want those changes to stay...
Eniwetok asked 14/6, 2016 at 21:52

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I am trying to revert to an earlier git commit but get the error "bad revision". Why? Here is a transcript (with author names removed): Ellen@ELLEN-PC /c/Users/Susan Mills/git/hello-github (maste...
Chemaram asked 6/2, 2014 at 16:25

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I am building a new app in Symfony 2.1. I am using a lot of bundles pulled in using composer. A lot of these bundles have problems with this latest version of Symfony and I am having to go into the...
Spoonfeed asked 6/6, 2012 at 14:23

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I have a dev branch which already merged with branches featureA and featureB. I merged that dev branch to master and pushed to remote. Later I identified featureB is not yet ready to merge with mas...
Revetment asked 25/9, 2018 at 11:7

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I was going to test something in dev branch (just a version number 0.1 --> 0.2), so I committed the change but I don't have the permission to push it to dev directly,then I created a feature bra...
Osmanli asked 16/9, 2020 at 16:9

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While trying to revert a commit I made to my repository of my .emacs.d folder I get the following message: haziz@haziz> git revert 7fe3f error: could not revert 7fe3f0b... .emacs.d contents fr...
Bush asked 26/11, 2011 at 21:35

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This has to be simple, but I can't find it in git-scm. I've been making a lot of small commits to a public project, and all of my work is bad. I want to remove everything that I've done. Some I've...
Stancil asked 16/12, 2013 at 5:37

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I have reviewed multiple similar questions and responses that haven't worked for my situation. Most recently, "Github does not recognize…" in 2017 I have the situation that branch A -&gt...
Slashing asked 3/9, 2021 at 22:35

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I am trying to learn how to restore or rollback files and projects to a prior state, and don't understand the difference between git revert, checkout, and reset. Why are there 3 different commands ...
Zofiazoha asked 2/12, 2011 at 13:37

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I have a branch A and a branch B (and some other branches). Lets say A's commit history looks like: commit 5 commit 4 commit 3 ... And B's commit history: some other commit commit 4 merge of...
Barred asked 27/2, 2015 at 21:1

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In Git, I was trying to do a squash commit by merging in another branch and then resetting HEAD to the previous place via: git reset origin/master But I need to step out of this. How can I move ...
Pammie asked 29/12, 2015 at 21:53

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So I'm working on a project with other people, and there's multiple github forks being worked on. Someone just made a fix for a problem and I merged with his fork, but then I realized that I could ...
Datum asked 11/5, 2011 at 21:34

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