# reverting changes 2 messages from 2013-04-04 to 2013-04-04. Participants: Thiago Farina, Junio C Hamano. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/33388 ## Thiago Farina, 2013-04-04 22:03 Subject: reverting changes Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CACnwZYe45poRihJToDY5yrLeY-wc%3D6HSjZBanjGvtiopbuAAFw%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hi, When I want to revert a change to a file that is already committed what is the best way? The way I found was: $ git checkout HEAD /path/to/my/file $ git reset HEAD /path/to/my/file Is this the canonical/best way or there other (easier-faster) ways? Thanks, ``` ## Junio C Hamano, 2013-04-04 22:19 Subject: Re: reverting changes Message-ID: <7v8v4ygcre.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7v8v4ygcre.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org In-Reply-To: ``` Thiago Farina writes: > When I want to revert a change to a file that is already committed > what is the best way? > > The way I found was: > > $ git checkout HEAD /path/to/my/file > $ git reset HEAD /path/to/my/file > > Is this the canonical/best way or there other (easier-faster) ways? If the issue you are solving is: What I committed to path/to/my/file is in good state. I then edited path/to/my/file but it turns out that I do not like what I did. I want the version I committed back (perhaps to start over, perhaps to do nothing further). then you can checkout the path out of the commit, i.e. git checkout HEAD path/to/my/file is the canonical and best way. But I am not sure if that is what you are asking with "want to revert a change to a file that is already commited". It can be read: I started from one state, made changes and have already committed them. These changes were bad ones that I regret, and I do not want them. and if so, "git checkout HEAD path/to/my/file" will happily grab the state after these bad changes are applied out of the commit. ```