Re: Revert a single commit in a single file
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Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
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- Feb 25, 2011, 12:37 UTC
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason venit, vidit, dixit 25.02.2011 12:17:
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> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:34, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen > <tfnico@gmail.com> wrote: >> I tried asking the same question on the "newbie" list some time ago: >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/git-users/browse_thread/thread/d562b4eeac016711 >> >> Basically, when I go >>> git revert <commit> <path> >> >> .. my expectation was that a new commit would be made reverting the >> changes from the old commit, but only for specified path/file. >> >> Maybe it's a bit of a corner-case, but still would be nice to have >> once in a while. What do you think? > > It would. What you can do in the meantime is: > > git revert <commit>
Ævar meant to write "git revert --no-commit <commit>" here. (Or there wouldn't be anything to reset and add.)
> git reset > git add <path> > git commit ... > git reset --hard # making sure you didn't have uncommited changes earlier
If you want to revert changes to all files but a few, you can do it the other way round (revert, checkout HEAD^ -- <path>, commit --amend).
Cheers, Michael