Re: how do i revert to a previous version, keeping the history

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 2, 2008, 07:12 UTC
Message-ID: <7vfxu4afwr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <47F32CBE.2040305@tikalk.com>

Ittay Dror <ittayd@tikalk.com> writes:

> I have this revision history: A-B
> I want to go back to the code in A, but keep B in the history: A-B-A
>
> How do I do that?

Straight answer (iow, what you asked, which may not match what you wanted to really do):

	$ git read-tree -m -u A
        $ git commit -m 'Revert to A'

Probably a more useful answer, guessing what you really wanted to do:

You have a botched commit F that was in the sequence of longer commits, A--B--C--D--E--F--G--H, and you want to recover from the mistake F made (iow, the change between E and F is bad):

	$ git revert F

This will make your history A--B--C--D--E--F--G--H--F' where the difference between H and F' counteracts what F did relative to E.