Revert to an old commit in Bitbucket

Question

I have git setup on my web hosting and on an account at Bitbucket which are both linked.

How can I revert back to my first commit on both my hosting (which I am logged into via SSH and has git installed ready and working) and on Bitbucket?

I have tried: git checkout 965a793

Then I tried with a dot on the end: git checkout .

but nothing seems to change on the Bitbucket side, when I got to git push. It says everything is up to date, even though Bitbucket is on commit cf08232

Here is a list of my three commits:

cf08232 remove the txt file
096d08f test.txt edited online with Bitbucket
965a793 Initial Commit

Answer 1

Use --force :

 git reset --hard commitID
 git push origin branchName --force

I am assuming origin is the remote of bitbucket