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Chironex
Chironex

Reputation: 819

How to undo a Git rollback

I wanted to rollback to the last commit after making a massive error, but I managed to rollback a little too fair. The commit I wanted to reassert doesn't appear when I enter 'git log' in bash (I suppose because it's no longer in the history). Is there any way I can recover the last commit by date?

I'm also using eGit in eclipse for the same project if that makes things easier. Thanks.

Upvotes: 12

Views: 24789

Answers (2)

Dan Ray
Dan Ray

Reputation: 21893

I find that generally it's better to make your changes forward in time rather than backward.

Git's approach is to "revert" the commit. When you revert a commit, you check out into your working directory the inverse of the commit in question. Then you add and commit that, and you've just made a NEW commit, that commits the "undoing" of the commit you're reverting, AND it leaves a record in history that such a thing happened, so if you want to undo your undoing, it's easy to do.

Upvotes: 3

manojlds
manojlds

Reputation: 301087

If you are ok with command line, go to you repo, do a git reflog and get the commit which you want to "rollback" to and do a git reset --hard <commit>

You would also be able to do git reset --hard HEAD@{1} and then come back to egit and rollback to the desired commit.

Upvotes: 24

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