How to back out certain pushes

Question

I'm looking at the last 10 or so pushes, and I would like to back out 4 of them (unconsecutive).

How can I do this?

In SVN, it would be a matter of reverting the changes and pushing the "undone" changes back in. Not sure how to do it in Git.

Answer 1

You use git revert <commit> to revert the offending commits without rewriting history. This creates a new commit that undoes these commits.

Instead of <commit> you use the SHA of each commit you want to revert.