Revert to a commit by a SHA hash in Git

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I m not clear on how git revert works  For example  I want to revert to a commit six commits behind the head  reverting all the changes in the intermediary commits in between   Say its SHA hash is 56e05fced214c44a37759efa2dfc25a65d8ae98d  Then why can t I just do something like   git revert 56e05fced214c44a37759efa2dfc25a65d8ae98d

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This might work   git checkout 56e05f echo ref  refs heads master  gt   git HEAD git commit

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It reverts the said commit  that is  adds the commit opposite to it  If you want to checkout an earlier revision  you do   git checkout 56e05fced214c44a37759efa2dfc25a65d8ae98d

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This is more understandable   git checkout 56e05fced --   git add   git commit -m  Revert to 56e05fced    And to prove that it worked   git diff 56e05fced

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Updated   This answer is simpler than my answer  https   stackoverflow com a 21718540 541862  Original answer     Create a backup of master branch git branch backup master    Point master to  56e05fce  and   make working directory the same with  56e05fce  git reset --hard 56e05fce    Point master back to  backup master  and   leave working directory the same with  56e05fce   git reset --soft backup master    Now working directory is the same  56e05fce  and   master points to the original revision  Then we create a commit  git commit -a -m  Revert to 56e05fce     Delete unused branch git branch -d backup master   The two commands git reset --hard and git reset --soft are magic here  The first one changes the working directory  but it also changes head  the current branch  too  We fix the head by the second one

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Should be as simple as   git reset --hard 56e05f   That ll get you back to that specific point in time

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The best way to rollback to a specific commit is   git reset --hard  lt commit-id gt    Then   git push  lt reponame gt  -f

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If you want to commit on top of the current HEAD with the exact state at a different commit  undoing all the intermediate commits  then you can use reset to create the correct state of the index to make the commit     Reset the index and working tree to the desired tree   Ensure you have no uncommitted changes that you want to keep git reset --hard 56e05fced    Move the branch pointer back to the previous HEAD git reset --soft HEAD  1   git commit -m  Revert to 56e05fced

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If your changes have already been pushed to a public  shared remote  and you want to revert all commits between HEAD and  lt sha-id gt   then you can pass a commit range to git revert   git revert 56e05f  HEAD   and it will revert all commits between 56e05f and HEAD  excluding the start point of the range  56e05f

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What git-revert does is create a commit which undoes changes made in a given commit  creating a commit which is reverse  well  reciprocal  of a given commit  Therefore   git revert  lt SHA-1 gt    should and does work   If you want to rewind back to a specified commit  and you can do this because this part of history was not yet published  you need to use git-reset  not git-revert   git reset --hard  lt SHA-1 gt     Note that --hard would make you lose any non-committed changes in the working directory    Additional Notes  By the way  perhaps it is not obvious  but everywhere where documentation says  lt commit gt  or  lt commit-ish gt   or  lt object gt    you can put an SHA-1 identifier  full or shortened  of commit

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