new commit that records it. This requires your working tree to be clean (no
modifications from the HEAD commit).
+Note: 'git revert' is used to record a new commit to reverse the
+effect of an earlier commit (often a faulty one). If you want to
+throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
+should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the '--hard' option. If
+you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you
+should see linkgit:git-checkout[1], specifically the 'git checkout
+<commit> -- <filename>' syntax. Take care with these alternatives as
+both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory.
+
OPTIONS
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<commit>::