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freeNinja
freeNinja

Reputation: 375

How to undo my git revert and go beck to what I've had before?

I wanted to delete the last 4 pushed commits so I did 

git revert HEAD~4..HEAD

Now, the first commits of my repo are gone (I don't know how many commits are deleted). Is there a way to undo what I did?

I tried to do

git reset --hard HEAD^

and I got this error 

fatal: Could not reset index file to revision 'HEAD^'.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 598

Answers (2)

Andrey Tyukin
Andrey Tyukin

Reputation: 44908

This should show you the commits that haven't been garbage-collected yet:

git log --all --graph --oneline --decorate

You can checkout the branch that you want to "fix":

git checkout branchInWeirdState

then reset --hard to one of the commits from the history:

git reset --hard 23456787654

Something along those lines...

Upvotes: 1

Bo Borgerson
Bo Borgerson

Reputation: 1406

git revert does not modify history. It creates a new commit that undoes the changes from the specified previous commits.

I don't know why git reset --hard HEAD^ is producing an error, but you might be able, as an alternative, to get the commit hash for the previous commit using git log and git reset --hard <ref> to that.

Upvotes: 0

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