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 571 <div id="header">
 572 <h1>
 573 git-revert(1) Manual Page
 574 </h1>
 575 <h2>NAME</h2>
 576 <div class="sectionbody">
 577 <p>git-revert -
 578    Revert some existing commits
 579 </p>
 580 </div>
 581 </div>
 582 <div id="content">
 583 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
 584 <div class="sectionbody">
 585 <div class="verseblock">
 586 <div class="verseblock-content"><em>git revert</em> [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] &lt;commit&gt;&#8230;
 587 <em>git revert</em> --reset
 588 <em>git revert</em> --continue</div>
 589 <div class="verseblock-attribution">
 590 </div></div>
 591 </div>
 592 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
 593 <div class="sectionbody">
 594 <div class="paragraph"><p>Given one or more existing commits, revert the changes that the
 595 related patches introduce, and record some new commits that record
 596 them.  This requires your working tree to be clean (no modifications
 597 from the HEAD commit).</p></div>
 598 <div class="paragraph"><p>Note: <em>git revert</em> is used to record some new commits to reverse the
 599 effect of some earlier commits (often only a faulty one).  If you want to
 600 throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
 601 should see <a href="git-reset.html">git-reset(1)</a>, particularly the <em>--hard</em> option.  If
 602 you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you
 603 should see <a href="git-checkout.html">git-checkout(1)</a>, specifically the <tt>git checkout
 604 &lt;commit&gt; -- &lt;filename&gt;</tt> syntax.  Take care with these alternatives as
 605 both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory.</p></div>
 606 </div>
 607 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
 608 <div class="sectionbody">
 609 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 610 <dt class="hdlist1">
 611 &lt;commit&gt;&#8230;
 612 </dt>
 613 <dd>
 614 <p>
 615         Commits to revert.
 616         For a more complete list of ways to spell commit names, see
 617         <a href="gitrevisions.html">gitrevisions(7)</a>.
 618         Sets of commits can also be given but no traversal is done by
 619         default, see <a href="git-rev-list.html">git-rev-list(1)</a> and its <em>--no-walk</em>
 620         option.
 621 </p>
 622 </dd>
 623 <dt class="hdlist1">
 624 -e
 625 </dt>
 626 <dt class="hdlist1">
 627 --edit
 628 </dt>
 629 <dd>
 630 <p>
 631         With this option, <em>git revert</em> will let you edit the commit
 632         message prior to committing the revert. This is the default if
 633         you run the command from a terminal.
 634 </p>
 635 </dd>
 636 <dt class="hdlist1">
 637 -m parent-number
 638 </dt>
 639 <dt class="hdlist1">
 640 --mainline parent-number
 641 </dt>
 642 <dd>
 643 <p>
 644         Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
 645         side of the merge should be considered the mainline.  This
 646         option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
 647         the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
 648         relative to the specified parent.
 649 </p>
 650 <div class="paragraph"><p>Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree changes
 651 brought in by the merge.  As a result, later merges will only bring in tree
 652 changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the previously
 653 reverted merge.  This may or may not be what you want.</p></div>
 654 <div class="paragraph"><p>See the <a href="howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt">revert-a-faulty-merge How-To</a> for
 655 more details.</p></div>
 656 </dd>
 657 <dt class="hdlist1">
 658 --no-edit
 659 </dt>
 660 <dd>
 661 <p>
 662         With this option, <em>git revert</em> will not start the commit
 663         message editor.
 664 </p>
 665 </dd>
 666 <dt class="hdlist1">
 667 -n
 668 </dt>
 669 <dt class="hdlist1">
 670 --no-commit
 671 </dt>
 672 <dd>
 673 <p>
 674         Usually the command automatically creates some commits with
 675         commit log messages stating which commits were
 676         reverted.  This flag applies the changes necessary
 677         to revert the named commits to your working tree
 678         and the index, but does not make the commits.  In addition,
 679         when this option is used, your index does not have to match
 680         the HEAD commit.  The revert is done against the
 681         beginning state of your index.
 682 </p>
 683 <div class="paragraph"><p>This is useful when reverting more than one commits'
 684 effect to your index in a row.</p></div>
 685 </dd>
 686 <dt class="hdlist1">
 687 -s
 688 </dt>
 689 <dt class="hdlist1">
 690 --signoff
 691 </dt>
 692 <dd>
 693 <p>
 694         Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
 695 </p>
 696 </dd>
 697 <dt class="hdlist1">
 698 --strategy=&lt;strategy&gt;
 699 </dt>
 700 <dd>
 701 <p>
 702         Use the given merge strategy.  Should only be used once.
 703         See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in <a href="git-merge.html">git-merge(1)</a>
 704         for details.
 705 </p>
 706 </dd>
 707 <dt class="hdlist1">
 708 -X&lt;option&gt;
 709 </dt>
 710 <dt class="hdlist1">
 711 --strategy-option=&lt;option&gt;
 712 </dt>
 713 <dd>
 714 <p>
 715         Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
 716         merge strategy.  See <a href="git-merge.html">git-merge(1)</a> for details.
 717 </p>
 718 </dd>
 719 </dl></div>
 720 </div>
 721 <h2 id="_sequencer_subcommands">SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS</h2>
 722 <div class="sectionbody">
 723 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 724 <dt class="hdlist1">
 725 --reset
 726 </dt>
 727 <dd>
 728 <p>
 729         Forget about the current operation in progress.  Can be used
 730         to clear the sequencer state after a failed cherry-pick or
 731         revert.
 732 </p>
 733 </dd>
 734 <dt class="hdlist1">
 735 --continue
 736 </dt>
 737 <dd>
 738 <p>
 739         Continue the operation in progress using the information in
 740         <em>.git/sequencer</em>.  Can be used to continue after resolving
 741         conflicts in a failed cherry-pick or revert.
 742 </p>
 743 </dd>
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 745 </div>
 746 <h2 id="_examples">EXAMPLES</h2>
 747 <div class="sectionbody">
 748 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 749 <dt class="hdlist1">
 750 <tt>git revert HEAD~3</tt>
 751 </dt>
 752 <dd>
 753 <p>
 754         Revert the changes specified by the fourth last commit in HEAD
 755         and create a new commit with the reverted changes.
 756 </p>
 757 </dd>
 758 <dt class="hdlist1">
 759 <tt>git revert -n master&#126;5..master&#126;2</tt>
 760 </dt>
 761 <dd>
 762 <p>
 763         Revert the changes done by commits from the fifth last commit
 764         in master (included) to the third last commit in master
 765         (included), but do not create any commit with the reverted
 766         changes. The revert only modifies the working tree and the
 767         index.
 768 </p>
 769 </dd>
 770 </dl></div>
 771 </div>
 772 <h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
 773 <div class="sectionbody">
 774 <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-cherry-pick.html">git-cherry-pick(1)</a></p></div>
 775 </div>
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