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6 git-revert - Revert some existing commits
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9 git revert [--[no-]edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-S[<keyid>]] <commit>...
10 git revert (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit)
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13 Given one or more existing commits, revert the changes that the related
14 patches introduce, and record some new commits that record them. This
15 requires your working tree to be clean (no modifications from the HEAD
16 commit).
17 Note: git revert is used to record some new commits to reverse the
19 effect of some earlier commits (often only a faulty one). If you want
20 to throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
21 should see git-reset(1), particularly the --hard option. If you want to
22 extract specific files as they were in another commit, you should see
23 git-restore(1), specifically the --source option. Take care with these
24 alternatives as both will discard uncommitted changes in your working
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26 See "Reset, restore and revert" in git(1) for the differences between
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31 <commit>...
32 Commits to revert. For a more complete list of ways to spell commit
33 names, see gitrevisions(7). Sets of commits can also be given but
34 no traversal is done by default, see git-rev-list(1) and its
35 --no-walk option.
36 -e, --edit
38 With this option, git revert will let you edit the commit message
39 prior to committing the revert. This is the default if you run the
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41 -m parent-number, --mainline parent-number
43 Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
44 side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This option
45 specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of the mainline and
46 allows revert to reverse the change relative to the specified
47 parent.
48 Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree
50 changes brought in by the merge. As a result, later merges will
51 only bring in tree changes introduced by commits that are not
52 ancestors of the previously reverted merge. This may or may not be
53 what you want.
54 See the revert-a-faulty-merge How-To[1] for more details.
56 --no-edit
58 With this option, git revert will not start the commit message
59 editor.
60 --cleanup=<mode>
62 This option determines how the commit message will be cleaned up
63 before being passed on to the commit machinery. See git-commit(1)
64 for more details. In particular, if the <mode> is given a value of
65 scissors, scissors will be appended to MERGE_MSG before being
66 passed on in the case of a conflict.
67 -n, --no-commit
69 Usually the command automatically creates some commits with commit
70 log messages stating which commits were reverted. This flag applies
71 the changes necessary to revert the named commits to your working
72 tree and the index, but does not make the commits. In addition,
73 when this option is used, your index does not have to match the
74 HEAD commit. The revert is done against the beginning state of your
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76 This is useful when reverting more than one commits' effect to your
78 index in a row.
79 -S[<keyid>], --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]
81 GPG-sign commits. The keyid argument is optional and defaults to
82 the committer identity; if specified, it must be stuck to the
83 option without a space.
84 -s, --signoff
86 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message. See the
87 signoff option in git-commit(1) for more information.
88 --strategy=<strategy>
90 Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once. See the
91 MERGE STRATEGIES section in git-merge(1) for details.
92 -X<option>, --strategy-option=<option>
94 Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the merge
95 strategy. See git-merge(1) for details.
96 --rerere-autoupdate, --no-rerere-autoupdate
98 Allow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the result of
99 auto-conflict resolution if possible.
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102 --continue
103 Continue the operation in progress using the information in
104 .git/sequencer. Can be used to continue after resolving conflicts
105 in a failed cherry-pick or revert.
106 --skip
108 Skip the current commit and continue with the rest of the sequence.
109 --quit
111 Forget about the current operation in progress. Can be used to
112 clear the sequencer state after a failed cherry-pick or revert.
113 --abort
115 Cancel the operation and return to the pre-sequence state.
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118 git revert HEAD~3
119 Revert the changes specified by the fourth last commit in HEAD and
120 create a new commit with the reverted changes.
121 git revert -n master~5..master~2
123 Revert the changes done by commits from the fifth last commit in
124 master (included) to the third last commit in master (included),
125 but do not create any commit with the reverted changes. The revert
126 only modifies the working tree and the index.
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129 git-cherry-pick(1)
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132 Part of the git(1) suite
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135 1. revert-a-faulty-merge How-To
136 file:///usr/share/doc/git/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html
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