SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-revert' [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] <commit>
+'git revert' [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] <commit>
DESCRIPTION
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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
-------
<commit>::
Commit to revert.
For a more complete list of ways to spell commit names, see
- "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1].
+ "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
--e|--edit::
- With this option, `git-revert` will let you edit the commit
- message prior committing the revert. This is the default if
+-e::
+--edit::
+ With this option, 'git-revert' will let you edit the commit
+ message prior to committing the revert. This is the default if
you run the command from a terminal.
--m parent-number|--mainline parent-number::
+-m parent-number::
+--mainline parent-number::
Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
relative to the specified parent.
++
+Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree changes
+brought in by the merge. As a result, later merges will only bring in tree
+changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the previously
+reverted merge. This may or may not be what you want.
++
+See the link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for
+more details.
--no-edit::
- With this option, `git-revert` will not start the commit
+ With this option, 'git-revert' will not start the commit
message editor.
--n|--no-commit::
+-n::
+--no-commit::
Usually the command automatically creates a commit with
- a commit log message stating which commit was reverted.
- This flag applies the change necessary to revert the
- named commit to your working tree, but does not make the
- commit. In addition, when this option is used, your
- working tree does not have to match the HEAD commit.
- The revert is done against the beginning state of your
- working tree.
+ a commit log message stating which commit was
+ reverted. This flag applies the change necessary
+ to revert the named commit to your working tree
+ and the index, but does not make the commit. In addition,
+ when this option is used, your index does not have to match
+ the HEAD commit. The revert is done against the
+ beginning state of your index.
+
This is useful when reverting more than one commits'
-effect to your working tree in a row.
+effect to your index in a row.
+
+-s::
+--signoff::
+ Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
Author
------
-Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
+Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation
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GIT
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-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite