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Based on its name, people may read the 'git revert' documentation when they want to undo local changes, especially people who have used other SCM's. 'git revert' may not be what they had in mind, but git provides several other ways to undo changes to files. We can help them by pointing them towards the git commands that do what they might want to do. Cc: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org> Cc: Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tarmigan Casebolt <tarmigan+git@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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git-revert(1)
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NAME
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----
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git-revert - Revert an existing commit
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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'git revert' [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] <commit>
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DESCRIPTION
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-----------
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Given one existing commit, revert the change the patch introduces, and record a
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new commit that records it. This requires your working tree to be clean (no
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modifications from the HEAD commit).
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Note: 'git revert' is used to record a new commit to reverse the
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effect of an earlier commit (often a faulty one). If you want to
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throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
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should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the '--hard' option. If
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you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you
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should see linkgit:git-checkout[1], specifically the 'git checkout
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<commit> -- <filename>' syntax. Take care with these alternatives as
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both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory.
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OPTIONS
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-------
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<commit>::
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Commit to revert.
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For a more complete list of ways to spell commit names, see
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"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
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-e::
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--edit::
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With this option, 'git-revert' will let you edit the commit
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message prior to committing the revert. This is the default if
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you run the command from a terminal.
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-m parent-number::
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--mainline parent-number::
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Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
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side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
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option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
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the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
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relative to the specified parent.
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--no-edit::
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With this option, 'git-revert' will not start the commit
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message editor.
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-n::
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--no-commit::
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Usually the command automatically creates a commit with
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a commit log message stating which commit was
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reverted. This flag applies the change necessary
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to revert the named commit to your working tree
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and the index, but does not make the commit. In addition,
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when this option is used, your index does not have to match
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the HEAD commit. The revert is done against the
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beginning state of your index.
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+
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This is useful when reverting more than one commits'
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effect to your index in a row.
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-s::
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--signoff::
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Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
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Author
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Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Documentation
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Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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GIT
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---
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Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite
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