From: Phillip Susi <phill@thesusis.net>
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2023 15:48:54 GMT
Subject: Re: git revert with partial commit.
Message-ID: <87355ddn6y.fsf@vps.thesusis.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAGP6POLVpjxO91s1dX98TLepXMrybSWq9y8qJ6b7w+e0SRJT1A@mail.gmail.com>


Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:

> Because the commit I want to revert is done a long time ago, which is
> not the parent of the commit I'm currently on, so I can't use the `~1`
> which indicates that I want to go back one commit from my current
> position.

You *can* use HEAD~1.  After the git revert, a new commit has been
created, and so HEAD~1 refers to the state of things before running git
revert.