6 git-revert - Revert an existing commit
10 'git revert' [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] <commit>
14 Given one existing commit, revert the change the patch introduces, and record a
15 new commit that records it. This requires your working tree to be clean (no
16 modifications from the HEAD commit).
18 Note: 'git revert' is used to record a new commit to reverse the
19 effect of an earlier commit (often a faulty one). If you want to
20 throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
21 should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the '--hard' option. If
22 you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you
23 should see linkgit:git-checkout[1], specifically the 'git checkout
24 <commit> -- <filename>' syntax. Take care with these alternatives as
25 both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory.
31 For a more complete list of ways to spell commit names, see
32 "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
36 With this option, 'git-revert' will let you edit the commit
37 message prior to committing the revert. This is the default if
38 you run the command from a terminal.
41 --mainline parent-number::
42 Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
43 side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
44 option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
45 the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
46 relative to the specified parent.
48 Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree changes
49 brought in by the merge. As a result, later merges will only bring in tree
50 changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the previously
51 reverted merge. This may or may not be what you want.
53 See the link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for
57 With this option, 'git-revert' will not start the commit
62 Usually the command automatically creates a commit with
63 a commit log message stating which commit was
64 reverted. This flag applies the change necessary
65 to revert the named commit to your working tree
66 and the index, but does not make the commit. In addition,
67 when this option is used, your index does not have to match
68 the HEAD commit. The revert is done against the
69 beginning state of your index.
71 This is useful when reverting more than one commits'
72 effect to your index in a row.
76 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
81 Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
85 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
89 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite