1git-revert(1) 2============= 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-revert - Revert some existing commits 7 8SYNOPSIS 9-------- 10[verse] 11'git revert' [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] <commit>... 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15 16Given one or more existing commits, revert the changes that the 17related patches introduce, and record some new commits that record 18them. This requires your working tree to be clean (no modifications 19from the HEAD commit). 20 21Note: 'git revert' is used to record some new commits to reverse the 22effect of some earlier commits (often only a faulty one). If you want to 23throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you 24should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the '--hard' option. If 25you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you 26should see linkgit:git-checkout[1], specifically the `git checkout 27<commit> -- <filename>` syntax. Take care with these alternatives as 28both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory. 29 30OPTIONS 31------- 32<commit>...:: 33 Commits to revert. 34 For a more complete list of ways to spell commit names, see 35 linkgit:gitrevisions[7]. 36 Sets of commits can also be given but no traversal is done by 37 default, see linkgit:git-rev-list[1] and its '--no-walk' 38 option. 39 40-e:: 41--edit:: 42 With this option, 'git revert' will let you edit the commit 43 message prior to committing the revert. This is the default if 44 you run the command from a terminal. 45 46-m parent-number:: 47--mainline parent-number:: 48 Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which 49 side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This 50 option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of 51 the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change 52 relative to the specified parent. 53+ 54Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree changes 55brought in by the merge. As a result, later merges will only bring in tree 56changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the previously 57reverted merge. This may or may not be what you want. 58+ 59See the link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for 60more details. 61 62--no-edit:: 63 With this option, 'git revert' will not start the commit 64 message editor. 65 66-n:: 67--no-commit:: 68 Usually the command automatically creates some commits with 69 commit log messages stating which commits were 70 reverted. This flag applies the changes necessary 71 to revert the named commits to your working tree 72 and the index, but does not make the commits. In addition, 73 when this option is used, your index does not have to match 74 the HEAD commit. The revert is done against the 75 beginning state of your index. 76+ 77This is useful when reverting more than one commits' 78effect to your index in a row. 79 80-s:: 81--signoff:: 82 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message. 83 84--strategy=<strategy>:: 85 Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once. 86 See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1] 87 for details. 88 89-X<option>:: 90--strategy-option=<option>:: 91 Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the 92 merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details. 93 94EXAMPLES 95-------- 96git revert HEAD~3:: 97 98 Revert the changes specified by the fourth last commit in HEAD 99 and create a new commit with the reverted changes. 100 101git revert -n master{tilde}5..master{tilde}2:: 102 103 Revert the changes done by commits from the fifth last commit 104 in master (included) to the third last commit in master 105 (included), but do not create any commit with the reverted 106 changes. The revert only modifies the working tree and the 107 index. 108 109SEE ALSO 110-------- 111linkgit:git-cherry-pick[1] 112 113GIT 114--- 115Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite