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niceseb

Reputation: 523

How to revert to previous commit and remove later commits in Git

Wanted to revert to previous commit by

$ git reset --hard commit_sha

Which seems to revert successfully with HEAD is now at that previous commit but within PyCharm log I still see the later commit in branch history.

So my question is how to remove that later commit ? i.e. image here, I want to remove commit 7e260f7

Do I right click on 7e260f7 or the commit named TEMP CHANGE GROUP and select 'Reset Current Branch to Here'?

Because the origin/master 7e260f7 is still in BitBucket? 

$ git reset --hard 7e260f7

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Upvotes: 2

Views: 2569

Answers (1)

Adam Nierzad
Adam Nierzad

Reputation: 942

Your branch master on remote origin is still pointing to the commit you're trying to remove. You need to force update the remote branch using git push origin master --force.

There is also a difference between reset and revert which is worth knowing.

When you use git reset you move the branch pointer to the commit you specify. You essentially move backwards through the history. Docs: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-reset

When you use git revert you reverse the changes that the commit you specify made and create another commit containing those reversed changes. In this instance you will create an additional commit with the reversed change set. Docs: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-revert

I hope this helps.

Upvotes: 2

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