Git - Undo pushed commits

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I have a project in a remote repository  synchronized with a local repository  development  and the server one  prod   I ve been making some commited changes already pushed to remote and pulled from the server  Now  I want to undo those changes  So I could just git checkout to the commit before the changes and commit the new changes  but I m guessing that there will be problems to push them again to remote  Any suggestion on how should I proceed

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git revert HEAD -m 1   In the above code line   Last argument represents    1 - reverts one commits   2 - reverts last two commits  n - reverts last n commits    You need to push after this command to take the effect on remote  You have other options like specifying the range of commits to revert  This is one of the option     Later use git commit -am  COMMIT MESSAGE  then git push or git push -f

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You can REVERT  or you can also call it DELETE  the Git Commit BOTH Locally and Remotely if you follow the steps as given below via git command line   Run the following command to see the commit id that you want to revert  git log --oneline --decorate --graph   You will get like a following screenshot   If you also check remote  via Web Interface  then you can see that this would be same as shown below    As per screenshot currently you are on commit id e110322 however you want to revert back to 030bbf6 BOTH LOCALLY and REMOTELY   Perform the following steps to DELETE REVERT Commits Locally Remotely    First Locally Reverting to commit id 030bbf6  git reset --hard 030bbf6   followed by   git clean -f -d   These two commands clean force reset to commit stage 030bbf6 as shown below in snapshot    now if you run  git status then you ll see that you are TWO Commits BEHIND from the remote branch as shown below   Run following to update your indexes  if there are any updates   It is recommended that you ask all developers not to accept any pull requests on main remote branch    git fetch --all   Once you are done with it then you are required to Push this commit forcefully by using   symbol in-front of branch as shown below  I have used here as master branch  you can replace it with any   Code  git push -u origin  master   now if you see the web interface of remote then commit there should be reverted as well

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What I do in these cases is    In the server  move the cursor back to the last known good commit   git push -f origin  lt last known good commit gt   lt branch name gt   Locally  do the same   git reset --hard  lt last known good commit gt                             optional          See a full example on a branch my new branch that I created for this purpose     git branch my new branch   This is the recent history after adding some stuff to myfile py     git log commit 80143bcaaca77963a47c211a9cbe664d5448d546 Author  me Date    Wed Mar 23 12 48 03 2016  0100      Adding new stuff in myfile py  commit b4zad078237fa48746a4feb6517fa409f6bf238e Author  me Date    Tue Mar 18 12 46 59 2016  0100      Initial commit   I want to get rid of the last commit  which was already pushed  so I run     git push -f origin b4zad078237fa48746a4feb6517fa409f6bf238e my new branch Total 0  delta 0   reused 0  delta 0  To git github com me myrepo git    80143bc   b4zad07 b4zad078237fa48746a4feb6517fa409f6bf238e - gt  my new branch  forced update    Nice  Now I see the file that was changed on that commit  myfile py  shows in  not staged for commit      git status On branch my new branch Your branch is up-to-date with  origin my new branch    Changes not staged for commit     use  git add  lt file gt      to update what will be committed     use  git checkout --  lt file gt      to discard changes in working directory       modified    myfile py  no changes added to commit  use  git add  and or  git commit -a     Since I don t want these changes  I just move the cursor back locally as well     git reset --hard b4zad078237fa48746a4feb6517fa409f6bf238e HEAD is now at b4zad07 Initial commit   So now HEAD is in the previous commit  both in local and remote     git log commit b4zad078237fa48746a4feb6517fa409f6bf238e Author  me Date    Tue Mar 18 12 46 59 2016  0100      Initial commit

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2020 Simple way     git reset  lt commit hash gt     The hash of the last commit you want to keep    You will keep the now uncommitted changes locally   If you want to push again  you have to do    git push -f

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A solution that keeps no traces of the  undo    NOTE  don t do this if someone allready pulled your change  I would use this only on my personal repo   do   git reset  lt previous label or sha1 gt    this will re-checkout all the updates locally  so git status will list all updated files   then you  do your work  and re-commit your changes  Note  this step is optional   git commit -am  blabla    At this moment your local tree differs from the remote   git push -f  lt remote-name gt   lt branch-name gt    will push and force remote to consider this push and remove the previous one  specifying remote-name and branch-name is not mandatory but is recommended to avoid updating all branches with update flag        watch-out some tags may still be pointing removed commit    how-to-delete-a-remote-tag

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Let s say 61234 is the sha-number of the last good commit you want to keep      git reset --hard 61234     git push -f origin master     will remove completely all wrong commits without any trace  Note  example assumed master branch on  origin  remote

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You can do something like  git push origin   lt short commit sha gt    lt branch name gt

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You can revert individual commits with  git revert  lt commit hash gt   This will create a new commit which reverts the changes of the commit you specified  Note that it only reverts that specific commit and not commits after that  If you want to revert a range of commits  you can do it like this  git revert  lt oldest commit hash gt    lt latest commit hash gt   It reverts the commits between and including the specified commits  To know the hash of the commit s  you can use git log Look at the git-revert man page for more information about the git revert command  Also  look at this answer for more information about reverting commits

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Another way to do this without revert  traces of undo   Don t do it if someone else has pushed other commits Create a backup of your branch  being in your branch my-branch  So in case something goes wrong  you can restart the process without losing any work done  git checkout -b my-branch-temp  Go back to your branch  git checkout my-branch  Reset  to discard your last commit  to undo it   git reset --hard HEAD   Remove the branch on remote  ex  origin remote   git push origin  my-branch  Repush your branch  without the unwanted commit  to the remote  git push origin my-branch  Done  I hope that helps

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Here is my way   Let s say the branch name is develop     Create a new temp branch based on one history commit git checkout  lt last known good commit hash gt  git checkout -b develop-temp    Delete the original develop branch and    create a new branch with the same name based on the develop-temp branch git branch -D develop git checkout -b develop    Force update this new branch git push -f origin develop    Remove the temp branch git branch -D develop-temp

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This will remove your pushed commits  git reset --hard  xxxxx   git clean -f -d  git push -f

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The reset hard worked for me  Thanks  Mo D Genensis and  vibs2006  git reset --hard  your last working commit hash   git clean -f -d  git push -f

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