# Has someone tried to do "git revert <commit> -- <path>"

1 messages from 2011-11-28 to 2011-11-28. Participants: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/29036

## Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, 2011-11-28 15:46

Subject: Has someone tried to do "git revert <commit> -- <path>"
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Sometimes I want to partially revert a commit, what I'll do is:

    git revert --no-commit <commit> &&
    git reset &&
    git add <paths> &&
    git commit

At which point I'll manually type in the commit window:

    Partially revert "description(<commit>)"

    This partially reverts <commit>. Only <paths> have been reverted.

Has someone tried to patch the revert logic to just support an
optional paths parameter, in which case this wouldn't need to be so
hard.

```