From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:19:23 GMT
Subject: Re: how to undo a git merge?
Message-ID: <20080711161923.GE10347@genesis.frugalware.org>
In-Reply-To: <fa7d16350807110916x689e316fr6bae01f28e2e1acb@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:16:15PM -0400, ff <ff@member.org> wrote:
> Now I would like to revert the merge... what is the best way of doing that?
> I would like very much to use something like git-revert <merge_commit_id>
> But that does not seem to work.

git revert has a '-m' option to revert merges. See the manpage.

> Any help/pointers of an example illustrating solution to this case
> would be greatly
> appreciated!

Actually if you just did that merge by accident, then probably you want
'git reset --hard HEAD^', not git revert, I think.