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I can't do a lot of things with git and I want to remove a commit from my repo, because I uploaded wrong stuff.
I used git revert <the_commit> but since the commit is root and I can't remove it.
fatal: Cannot revert a root commit
What to do in that case ?
Please don't give me links to other topics here, I read them and I don't understand what to do, I need some basic example about removing some commit.
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To remove the last commit from git, you can simply run git reset --hard HEAD^ If you are removing multiple commits from the top, you can run git reset --hard HEAD~2 to remove the last two commits.
Deleting the "Middle" Commit from the History. All you need to do is typing "drop" at the beginning of each commit you want to delete. Be careful while using the git rebase command, as it may cause sudden problems. So, it is more recommended to use the git revert command.
You can do this using git filter-branch. First, identify the commit ID at the root that you want to remove. I'll represent that with <the_commit>. Then, run git filter-branch using --parent-filter and a sed command that snips off that parent:
git filter-branch --parent-filter "sed 's/-p <the_commit>//'" HEAD
Here's a transcript of an example I just tried:
$ git log
commit 7e1ba37b51fc2cc6289cf66367c9aedc74c664a8
Author: Greg Hewgill <[email protected]>
Date: Fri May 27 20:54:27 2011 +1200
three
commit a8a410d2361824cbd518a48225e9402a691be93f
Author: Greg Hewgill <[email protected]>
Date: Fri May 27 20:54:17 2011 +1200
two
commit 3171d512d98f6bc5f3c2469312930c0d32d3aa07
Author: Greg Hewgill <[email protected]>
Date: Fri May 27 20:54:00 2011 +1200
one
$ git filter-branch --parent-filter "sed 's/-p 3171d512d98f6bc5f3c2469312930c0d32d3aa07//'" HEAD
Rewrite 7e1ba37b51fc2cc6289cf66367c9aedc74c664a8 (3/3)
Ref 'refs/heads/master' was rewritten
$ git log
commit 489ec1ee20e0dd20cd835ceebf157f628cd75a44
Author: Greg Hewgill <[email protected]>
Date: Fri May 27 20:54:27 2011 +1200
three
commit a6f5ee410c9ea4fca6fbff265149b7fc555241eb
Author: Greg Hewgill <[email protected]>
Date: Fri May 27 20:54:17 2011 +1200
two
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