How do you roll back reset a Git repository to a particular commit

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I cloned a Git repository and then tried to roll it back to a particular commit early on in the development process  Everything that was added to the repository after that point is unimportant to me so I want to omit all subsequent changes from my local source code   However  when I try to roll back in the GUI tool it doesn t update my local file system - I always end up with the latest source code for the project   What s the correct way to just get the source for a repository as of a particular commit in the project s history and omit all later updates

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For those with a git gui bent  you can also use gitk    Right click on the commit you want to return to and select  Reset master branch to here   Then choose hard from the next menu

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When you say the  GUI Tool   I assume you re using Git For Windows   IMPORTANT  I would highly recommend creating a new branch to do this on if you haven t already  That way your master can remain the same while you test out your changes   With the GUI you need to  roll back this commit  like you have with the history on the right of your view  Then you will notice you have all the unwanted files as changes to commit on the left  Now you need to right click on the grey title above all the uncommited files and select  disregard changes   This will set your files back to how they were in this version

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git reset --hard  lt tag branch commit id gt      Notes    git reset without the --hard option resets the commit history  but not the files  With the --hard option the files in working tree are also reset   credited user  If you wish to commit that state so that the remote repository also points to the rolled back commit do  git push  lt reponame gt  -f  credited user

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Update   Because of changes to how tracking branches are created and pushed I no longer recommend renaming branches  This is what I recommend now   Make a copy of the branch at its current state   git branch crazyexperiment    The git branch  lt name gt  command will leave you with your current branch still checked out    Reset your current branch to your desired commit with git reset   git reset --hard c2e7af2b51    Replace c2e7af2b51 with the commit that you want to go back to    When you decide that your crazy experiment branch doesn t contain anything useful  you can delete it with   git branch -D crazyexperiment   It s always nice when you re starting out with history-modifying git commands  reset  rebase  to create backup branches before you run them  Eventually once you re comfortable you won t find it necessary  If you do modify your history in a way that you don t want and haven t created a backup branch  look into git reflog  Git keeps commits around for quite a while even if there are no branches or tags pointing to them   Original answer   A slightly less scary way to do this than the git reset --hard method is to create a new branch  Let s assume that you re on the master branch and the commit you want to go back to is c2e7af2b51   Rename your current master branch   git branch -m crazyexperiment   Check out your good commit   git checkout c2e7af2b51   Make your new master branch here   git checkout -b master   Now you still have your crazy experiment around if you want to look at it later  but your master branch is back at your last known good point  ready to be added to  If you really want to throw away your experiment  you can use   git branch -D crazyexperiment

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