Git – Revert to Specific Commit – Local & Pushed

In Git we can gracefully revert all changes to the specific commit without using the potentially dangerous git reset command.

In this note i am showing how to undo local changes by making a rollback to the specific commit and how to revert a commit that has already been pushed to remote.

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Git – Revert to Specific Commit

Find the specific commit you want to revert all changes to:

$ git log --oneline

Rollback all changes to that old commit:

$ git checkout be9055b .

Note: The dot (.) after the branch name is mandatory.

Add the changes to the staging area and commit them:

$ git add -A
$ git commit -m "Revert commit: be9055b"

Once the local rollback is done, you can revert the already pushed commits, by pushing a new revision with the reverted changes to the remote Git repository:

$ git push

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