git-revert
(1)
Name
git-revert - Revert some existing commits
Synopsis
git revert [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] <commit>...
git revert --continue
git revert --quit
git revert --abort
Description
Git Manual GIT-REVERT(1)
NAME
git-revert - Revert some existing commits
SYNOPSIS
git revert [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] <commit>...
git revert --continue
git revert --quit
git revert --abort
DESCRIPTION
Given one or more existing commits, revert the changes that
the related patches introduce, and record some new commits
that record them. This requires your working tree to be
clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit).
Note: git revert is used to record some new commits to
reverse the effect of some earlier commits (often only a
faulty one). If you want to throw away all uncommitted
changes in your working directory, you should see git-
reset(1), particularly the --hard option. If you want to
extract specific files as they were in another commit, you
should see git-checkout(1), specifically the git checkout
<commit> -- <filename> syntax. Take care with these
alternatives as both will discard uncommitted changes in
your working directory.
OPTIONS
<commit>...
Commits to revert. For a more complete list of ways to
spell commit names, see gitrevisions(5). Sets of commits
can also be given but no traversal is done by default,
see git-rev-list(1) and its --no-walk option.
-e, --edit
With this option, git revert will let you edit the
commit message prior to committing the revert. This is
the default if you run the command from a terminal.
-m parent-number, --mainline parent-number
Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not
know which side of the merge should be considered the
mainline. This option specifies the parent number
(starting from 1) of the mainline and allows revert to
reverse the change relative to the specified parent.
Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never
want the tree changes brought in by the merge. As a
result, later merges will only bring in tree changes
introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the
previously reverted merge. This may or may not be what
you want.
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See the revert-a-faulty-merge How-To[1] for more
details.
--no-edit
With this option, git revert will not start the commit
message editor.
-n, --no-commit
Usually the command automatically creates some commits
with commit log messages stating which commits were
reverted. This flag applies the changes necessary to
revert the named commits to your working tree and the
index, but does not make the commits. In addition, when
this option is used, your index does not have to match
the HEAD commit. The revert is done against the
beginning state of your index.
This is useful when reverting more than one commits'
effect to your index in a row.
-s, --signoff
Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
--strategy=<strategy>
Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once.
See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in git-merge(1) for
details.
-X<option>, --strategy-option=<option>
Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
merge strategy. See git-merge(1) for details.
SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS
--continue
Continue the operation in progress using the information
in .git/sequencer. Can be used to continue after
resolving conflicts in a failed cherry-pick or revert.
--quit
Forget about the current operation in progress. Can be
used to clear the sequencer state after a failed
cherry-pick or revert.
--abort
Cancel the operation and return to the pre-sequence
state.
EXAMPLES
git revert HEAD~3
Revert the changes specified by the fourth last commit
in HEAD and create a new commit with the reverted
changes.
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git revert -n master~5..master~2
Revert the changes done by commits from the fifth last
commit in master (included) to the third last commit in
master (included), but do not create any commit with the
reverted changes. The revert only modifies the working
tree and the index.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | developer/versioning/git |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------------+
SEE ALSO
git-cherry-pick(1)
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
NOTES
1. revert-a-faulty-merge How-To
file:///home/junio/share/doc/git-doc/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from http://git-
core.googlecode.com/files/git-1.7.9.2.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://git-scm.com/.
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