# Reverting a specific commit

5 messages from 2010-09-23 to 2010-09-23. Participants: milindkanchan, John Tapsell, Pascal Obry.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25206

## milindkanchan, 2010-09-23 07:13

Subject: Reverting a specific commit
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Hi All,

I am using git for code management.

I have some query regarding reverting the commit in git.

Can we revert a specific commit in git ?

Eg. One of our X developer has committed the code in master branch last
week, after which there were several commits to master branch, now there was
an issue with the code committed by X developer and now I need to
revert/discard just his commit keeping the other commits done after him as
intact.

Can anybody give a solution for this with all the commands.

Thanks & Regard
M.K

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## John Tapsell, 2010-09-23 07:17

Subject: Re: Reverting a specific commit
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On 23 September 2010 08:13, milindkanchan <milindkanchan@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi All,
>
> I am using git for code management.
>
> I have some query regarding reverting the commit in git.
>
> Can we revert a specific commit in git ?

To make a new commit to undo a bad commit:

git revert SHA

where SHA is that long string of numbers and letters associated with
each commit.  do "git log" to find out what the SHA is.

John

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## Pascal Obry, 2010-09-23 07:17

Subject: Re: Reverting a specific commit
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:13 AM, milindkanchan <milindkanchan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can we revert a specific commit in git ?

   $ git revert <sha1>

for more information:

   $ git revert --help

Pascal.

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## milindkanchan, 2010-09-23 08:01

Subject: Re: Reverting a specific commit
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But will it affect the commits done after that
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## Pascal Obry, 2010-09-23 09:05

Subject: Re: Reverting a specific commit
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 10:01 AM, milindkanchan <milindkanchan@gmail.com> wrote:
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> But will it affect the commits done after that

No. It is a revert. I will create a new commit that revert the work
done for the given commit.

Pascal.

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