How to undo a git pull

Question

I would like to undo my git pull on account of unwanted commits on the remote origin  but I don t know to which revision I have to reset back to   How can I just go back to the state before I did the git pull on the remote origin

User · Accepted Answer

Or to make it more explicit than the other answer:

git pull

whoops?

git reset --keep HEAD@{1}

Versions of git older than 1.7.1 do not have --keep. If you use such version, you could use --hard - but that is a dangerous operation because it loses any local changes.

To the commenter

ORIG_HEAD is previous state of HEAD, set by commands that have possibly dangerous behavior, to be easy to revert them. It is less useful now that Git has reflog: HEAD@{1} is roughly equivalent to ORIG_HEAD (HEAD@{1} is always last value of HEAD, ORIG_HEAD is last value of HEAD before dangerous operation)

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From https   git-scm com docs git-reset Documentation git-reset txt-Undoamergeorpullinsideadirtyworkingtree     Undo a merge or pull inside a dirty working tree    git pull            1  Auto-merging nitfol Merge made by recursive   nitfol                   20      ----        git reset --merge ORIG HEAD       2        Even if   you may have local modifications in your working tree  you can safely   say git pull when you know that the change in the other branch does   not overlap with them       After inspecting the result of the merge  you may find that the change   in the other branch is unsatisfactory  Running git reset --hard ORIG HEAD   will let you go back to where you were  but it will discard   your local changes  which you do not want  git reset --merge keeps   your local changes    See also https   stackoverflow com a 30345382 621690

User · Answer

This worked for me   git reset --hard ORIG HEAD    Undo a merge or pull     git pull                          1  Auto-merging nitfol CONFLICT  content   Merge conflict in nitfol Automatic merge failed  fix conflicts and then commit the result    git reset --hard                  2    git pull   topic branch           3  Updating from 41223    to 13134    Fast-forward   git reset --hard ORIG HEAD        4    Checkout this  HEAD and ORIG HEAD in Git for more

User · Answer

Find the  lt SHA  gt  for the commit you want to go  You can find it in github or by typing git log or git reflog show at the command line and then do  git reset --hard  lt SHA  gt

User · Answer

Reset the master branch  git reset --hard origin master

User · Answer

git reflog show should show you the history of HEAD  You can use that to figure out where you were before the pull  Then you can reset your HEAD to that commit

User · Answer

Even though the above solutions do work This answer is for you in case you want to reverse the clock instead of undoing a  git pull I mean if you want to get your exact repo the way it was X Mins back then run the command git reset --hard branchName   quot X Minutes ago quot   Note  before you actually go ahead and run this command please only try this command if you are sure about the time you want to go back to and heres about my situation  I was currently on a branch develop  I was supposed to checkout to a new branch and pull in another branch lets say Branch A  but I accidentally ran git pull origin B before checking out  so to undo this change I tried this command git reset --hard develop   quot 10 Minutes ago quot   if you are on windows cmd and get error  unknown switch  e try adding quotes  like this git reset --hard  develop   quot 10 Minutes ago quot

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