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Undo a commit
How to undo a local commit
One way you can undo a commit locally is by using git reset. For example, if you want to undo the last commit made, you can run this command:
git reset --soft HEAD~1
The --soft flag preserves the changes you've made to the files you committed, only the commit is reverted. However, if you don't want to keep the changes made to the files, you can use the --hard flag instead like this:
git reset --hard HEAD~1
Note that you should use the --hard flag only when you are sure that you don't need the changes.
Also, note that HEAD~1 points to the last commit. If you want to undo a commit before that, you can use git reflog to get a log of all previous commits. Then use the git reset command with the commit hash (the number you get at the beginning of each line of history). For example, if my commit hash is 9157b6910, I'll do this
git reset --soft 9157b6910
How to undo a remote commit
There are times you want to undo a commit you have pushed to a remote repository. You can use git revert to undo it locally and push this change to the remote branch.
First, get the commit hash using git reflog.
git reflog
Then revert it. Assuming my commit hash is 9157b6910, I'll do the following:
git revert 9157b6910
Finally, push this change to the remote branch.
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