Revert a merge after being pushed

Question

Steps i performed:

I have two branches branch1 and branch2,

$git branch --Initial state $branch1  $git checkout branch2 $git pull origin branch1 --Step1 

I resolve the conflicts and did a

$git commit -m "Merge resolved" 

then

$git checkout branch1 $git merge branch2 $git push origin branch1 

Now i realised that while being at step1, the auto merging removed some code and the change code was pushed, now i want to go back to my initial state in order to revert any changes.looking for some immediate help?

Answer 1

You can revert the merge following the official guide, however this leaves Git with the erroneous belief that the merged commits are still on the target branch.

Basically you have to :

git revert -m 1 (Commit id of the merge commit) 

Answer 2

Try using git reflog <branch> to find out where your branch was before the merge and git reset --hard <commit number> to restore the old revision.

Reflog will show you older states of the branch, so you can return it to any change set you like.

Make sure you are in correct branch when you use git reset

To change remote repository history, you can do git push -f, however this is not recommended because someone can alredy have downloaded changes, pushed by you.