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 404 <div id="header">
 405 <h1>
 406 git-revert(1) Manual Page
 407 </h1>
 408 <h2>NAME</h2>
 409 <div class="sectionbody">
 410 <p>git-revert -
 411    Revert some existing commits
 412 </p>
 413 </div>
 414 </div>
 415 <h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
 416 <div class="sectionbody">
 417 <div class="verseblock">
 418 <div class="verseblock-content"><em>git revert</em> [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] &lt;commit&gt;&#8230;</div>
 419 <div class="verseblock-attribution">
 420 </div></div>
 421 </div>
 422 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
 423 <div class="sectionbody">
 424 <div class="paragraph"><p>Given one or more existing commits, revert the changes that the
 425 related patches introduce, and record some new commits that record
 426 them.  This requires your working tree to be clean (no modifications
 427 from the HEAD commit).</p></div>
 428 <div class="paragraph"><p>Note: <em>git revert</em> is used to record some new commits to reverse the
 429 effect of some earlier commits (often only a faulty one).  If you want to
 430 throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
 431 should see <a href="git-reset.html">git-reset(1)</a>, particularly the <em>--hard</em> option.  If
 432 you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you
 433 should see <a href="git-checkout.html">git-checkout(1)</a>, specifically the <tt>git checkout
 434 &lt;commit&gt; -- &lt;filename&gt;</tt> syntax.  Take care with these alternatives as
 435 both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory.</p></div>
 436 </div>
 437 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
 438 <div class="sectionbody">
 439 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 440 <dt class="hdlist1">
 441 &lt;commit&gt;&#8230;
 442 </dt>
 443 <dd>
 444 <p>
 445         Commits to revert.
 446         For a more complete list of ways to spell commit names, see
 447         <a href="gitrevisions.html">gitrevisions(7)</a>.
 448         Sets of commits can also be given but no traversal is done by
 449         default, see <a href="git-rev-list.html">git-rev-list(1)</a> and its <em>--no-walk</em>
 450         option.
 451 </p>
 452 </dd>
 453 <dt class="hdlist1">
 454 -e
 455 </dt>
 456 <dt class="hdlist1">
 457 --edit
 458 </dt>
 459 <dd>
 460 <p>
 461         With this option, <em>git revert</em> will let you edit the commit
 462         message prior to committing the revert. This is the default if
 463         you run the command from a terminal.
 464 </p>
 465 </dd>
 466 <dt class="hdlist1">
 467 -m parent-number
 468 </dt>
 469 <dt class="hdlist1">
 470 --mainline parent-number
 471 </dt>
 472 <dd>
 473 <p>
 474         Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
 475         side of the merge should be considered the mainline.  This
 476         option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
 477         the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
 478         relative to the specified parent.
 479 </p>
 480 <div class="paragraph"><p>Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree changes
 481 brought in by the merge.  As a result, later merges will only bring in tree
 482 changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the previously
 483 reverted merge.  This may or may not be what you want.</p></div>
 484 <div class="paragraph"><p>See the <a href="howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt">revert-a-faulty-merge How-To</a> for
 485 more details.</p></div>
 486 </dd>
 487 <dt class="hdlist1">
 488 --no-edit
 489 </dt>
 490 <dd>
 491 <p>
 492         With this option, <em>git revert</em> will not start the commit
 493         message editor.
 494 </p>
 495 </dd>
 496 <dt class="hdlist1">
 497 -n
 498 </dt>
 499 <dt class="hdlist1">
 500 --no-commit
 501 </dt>
 502 <dd>
 503 <p>
 504         Usually the command automatically creates some commits with
 505         commit log messages stating which commits were
 506         reverted.  This flag applies the changes necessary
 507         to revert the named commits to your working tree
 508         and the index, but does not make the commits.  In addition,
 509         when this option is used, your index does not have to match
 510         the HEAD commit.  The revert is done against the
 511         beginning state of your index.
 512 </p>
 513 <div class="paragraph"><p>This is useful when reverting more than one commits'
 514 effect to your index in a row.</p></div>
 515 </dd>
 516 <dt class="hdlist1">
 517 -s
 518 </dt>
 519 <dt class="hdlist1">
 520 --signoff
 521 </dt>
 522 <dd>
 523 <p>
 524         Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
 525 </p>
 526 </dd>
 527 <dt class="hdlist1">
 528 --strategy=&lt;strategy&gt;
 529 </dt>
 530 <dd>
 531 <p>
 532         Use the given merge strategy.  Should only be used once.
 533         See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in <a href="git-merge.html">git-merge(1)</a>
 534         for details.
 535 </p>
 536 </dd>
 537 <dt class="hdlist1">
 538 -X&lt;option&gt;
 539 </dt>
 540 <dt class="hdlist1">
 541 --strategy-option=&lt;option&gt;
 542 </dt>
 543 <dd>
 544 <p>
 545         Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
 546         merge strategy.  See <a href="git-merge.html">git-merge(1)</a> for details.
 547 </p>
 548 </dd>
 549 </dl></div>
 550 </div>
 551 <h2 id="_examples">EXAMPLES</h2>
 552 <div class="sectionbody">
 553 <div class="dlist"><dl>
 554 <dt class="hdlist1">
 555 <tt>git revert HEAD~3</tt>
 556 </dt>
 557 <dd>
 558 <p>
 559         Revert the changes specified by the fourth last commit in HEAD
 560         and create a new commit with the reverted changes.
 561 </p>
 562 </dd>
 563 <dt class="hdlist1">
 564 <tt>git revert -n master&#126;5..master&#126;2</tt>
 565 </dt>
 566 <dd>
 567 <p>
 568         Revert the changes done by commits from the fifth last commit
 569         in master (included) to the third last commit in master
 570         (included), but do not create any commit with the reverted
 571         changes. The revert only modifies the working tree and the
 572         index.
 573 </p>
 574 </dd>
 575 </dl></div>
 576 </div>
 577 <h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
 578 <div class="sectionbody">
 579 <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-cherry-pick.html">git-cherry-pick(1)</a></p></div>
 580 </div>
 581 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
 582 <div class="sectionbody">
 583 <div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
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