Undo a Git commit after push using reverse patch?

Question

I've pushed a commit and I want to revert changes introduced by this commit by applying and committing a reversed patch. How do I do it?

Answer 1

Use

git revert HEAD 

This will create a patch that reverts the last commit and commit that patch as a new commit.

If you want to revert a specific earlier version, use

git revert <revision> 

see also: http://schacon.github.com/git/git-revert.html

Answer 2

Sounds like you want to use git-revert.

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-revert.html