Git reset to previous commit

Question

I have three commits I made which I attempted to clean up some code. Anyways I managed to completely destroy what I was working on. And I want to delete the past three commits and return to a specific commit SHA1.

How can I restore to that previous commit and delete the history of those 3 commits? (The history deleting part is not a big deal). These commits are pushed already, so I am a little lost.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Find the commit you want to reset to:

git log 

Once you have the hash:

git reset --hard <hash> 

And to push onto the remote:

git push -f <remote> <branch>