What does fatal bad revision mean

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In the context    git revert HEAD 2 myFile fatal  bad revision   Users rose gitTest myFile    I m sure HEAD 2 exists   EDIT Amber is correct  I meant to use reset instead of revert

User · Accepted Answer

If you only want to revert a single file to its state in a given commit, you actually want to use the checkout command:

git checkout HEAD~2 myFile

The revert command is used for reverting entire commits (and it doesn't revert you to that commit; it actually just reverts the changes made by that commit - if you have another commit after the one you specify, the later commit won't be reverted).

User · Answer

If you want to delete any commit then you might need to use git rebase command  git rebase -i HEAD 2  it will show you last 2 commit messages  if you delete the commit message and save that file deleted commit will automatically disappear

User · Answer

I had a similar issue with Intellij  The issue was that someone added the file that I am trying to compare in Intellij to  gitignore  without actually deleting the file from Git

User · Answer

in my case I had an inconsistent state where the file in question  with the bad commit hash  was not actually added to Git  this clashed somehow with IntelliJ s state  Manually adding the file using git on the command line fixed the issue for me

User · Answer

git revert doesn t take a filename parameter   Do you want git checkout

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I had a  fatal   bad revision  with Idea   Webstorm because I had a git directory inside another  without using properly submodules or subtrees   I checked for  git dirs with     find    -name   git  -print

User · Answer

Why are you specifying myFile there   Git revert reverts the commit s  that you specify   git revert HEAD 2   reverts the HEAD 2 commit  git revert HEAD 2 myfile   reverts HEAD 2 AND myFile   I take myFile is a file that you want to revert  In that case use   git checkout HEAD 2 -- myFile

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Git revert only accepts commits From the docs   Given one or more existing commits  revert the changes that the related patches introduce      myFile is intepretted as a commit - because git revert doesn t accept file paths  only commits Change one file to match a previous commit To change one file to match a previous commit - use git checkout git checkout HEAD 2 myFile

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I was getting this error in IntelliJ  and none of these answers helped me  So here s how I solved it   Somehow one of my sub-modules added a  git directory  All git functionality returned after I deleted it

[git] What does "fatal: bad revision" mean?

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