How to revert specific files/folders
Assuming you want to revert the changes to the subproject made in commit C, I would do the following: git revert C --no-commit #staging area contains all reverted files git reset #working directory contains all reverted files git add /path/to/subproject #staging area contains reverted subproject git commit git reset --hard...
Stupid GIT GUI questions
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Crashmstr's comment is the best way to go: http://git-scm.com/docs/git-bisect Basically you start bisecting with $ git bisect start Then declare your "bad version" $ git bisect bad # Current version is bad And then declare your last known "good version" $ git bisect good v2.6.13-rc2 # v2.6.13-rc2 was the last...
Can I go to an older revision of the branch in git using revision number?
The git log command shows the Git log, which uses Git-style SHA-1 hashes to identify commits. If you want to see your Subversion revisions in the log, use git svn log. You probably want to use the -r option to see your known good commit, and the --show-commit option to...
GIT: remove commit halfway down in log but keep all overs
You can do a git rebase: $ git rebase -i HEAD~8 This will launch your editor, and you can pick the commits you want....
Can we say that a git revert merges the old previous commits on top of the reverted commit?
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In short git revert creates the inverse of the commit you want to undo. Then you commit that new change-set into the repository. See section Unmodifying a Modified File in 2.4 Git Basics - Undoing Things. So, no, you can't say: Can we say that a git revert merges the...
Git revert cherry pick on pull request branch without reverting on master
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Try it. Git is a distributed SCM—you can merge the feature branch into master on your local repository and see what happens without anybody else noticing. (Don't forget to revert your experiments afterwards.) If you want to be extra secure, copy your repository first and try it in the copy....
GitHub commits got deleted
You did force push which will overwrite whole commit history in the branch. You have made two mistakes: It looks like you did not clone the respository but copied and called git init. You can make a separate branch and merge with the master, but you did not. You can...
Remerge after reverting failed merge
If you have not published the bad merge and its reversion, you can remove them and publish a correct merge instead. If you have published (pushed or otherwise given out) the bad merge, your best bet is probably to work out a correct merge by creating a new branch starting...
Git revert certain files
A shorter sequence for when you can make a short list of what you want: git revert that_commit # do the whole revert git reset --hard HEAD^ # in what turns out to have been a throwaway commit git checkout [email protected]{1} -- one/folder # and just take what you want...
Why reverted commit won't show in new PR?
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For those of you wondering: All I had to do was merge from master to XYZ branch so I could get the latest commits then revert the commit that reverted my code. Then the files in that previously reverted commits showed up in the new PR.
How to undo changes in a file after multiple commits in Git?
git checkout <sha1_of_commit> file/to/restore will revert file to state after <sha1_of_commit> commit. If you want to revert it to state before this commit use git checkout <sha1_of_commit>~1 file/to/restore.
Git revert command error
For git revert to "back out" a change, it needs to figure out what the change was. In the case of most ordinary commits, the change is easy to compute. Consider for instance this git commit graph fragment: ... - G - H ... <-- HEAD=master Here you're on branch...