From: Michael Witten Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 05:08:40 GMT Subject: Re: What's The Right Way to Do This? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 04:48, Jon Forrest wrote: > ... So, I tried to revert using various methods I found by > googling "git revert"... > ... > ...this experience left me wondering what I should have > done in the first place. What you should have done in the first place is RTFM; while not fantastic, there is a decent amount of official git documentation. > What happened was that when I tried to revert back to the > commit before the one I made, the files I had modified > *and* the files that apparently were modified by other > people in #3 above were reverted. This wasn't what > I wanted. I only wanted to revert the changes I had made. It would be a good idea to reproduce the unexpected behavior you are experiencing by means of a minimal set of commands that you can post here for others to try. > With the help of someone more experienced than me we were > able to get things back to normal... There's a chance I'm > going to have to go through all this again as I try to fix > the problem with my changes. Why don't you ask that person about it?