6 git-revert - Revert some existing commits
11 'git revert' [--[no-]edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-S[<keyid>]] <commit>...
12 'git revert' --continue
19 Given one or more existing commits, revert the changes that the
20 related patches introduce, and record some new commits that record
21 them. This requires your working tree to be clean (no modifications
22 from the HEAD commit).
24 Note: 'git revert' is used to record some new commits to reverse the
25 effect of some earlier commits (often only a faulty one). If you want to
26 throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
27 should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the `--hard` option. If
28 you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you
29 should see linkgit:git-checkout[1], specifically the `git checkout
30 <commit> -- <filename>` syntax. Take care with these alternatives as
31 both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory.
37 For a more complete list of ways to spell commit names, see
38 linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
39 Sets of commits can also be given but no traversal is done by
40 default, see linkgit:git-rev-list[1] and its `--no-walk`
45 With this option, 'git revert' will let you edit the commit
46 message prior to committing the revert. This is the default if
47 you run the command from a terminal.
50 --mainline parent-number::
51 Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
52 side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
53 option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
54 the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
55 relative to the specified parent.
57 Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree changes
58 brought in by the merge. As a result, later merges will only bring in tree
59 changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the previously
60 reverted merge. This may or may not be what you want.
62 See the link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for
66 With this option, 'git revert' will not start the commit
70 This option determines how the commit message will be cleaned up before
71 being passed on to the commit machinery. See linkgit:git-commit[1] for more
72 details. In particular, if the '<mode>' is given a value of `scissors`,
73 scissors will be appended to `MERGE_MSG` before being passed on in the case
78 Usually the command automatically creates some commits with
79 commit log messages stating which commits were
80 reverted. This flag applies the changes necessary
81 to revert the named commits to your working tree
82 and the index, but does not make the commits. In addition,
83 when this option is used, your index does not have to match
84 the HEAD commit. The revert is done against the
85 beginning state of your index.
87 This is useful when reverting more than one commits'
88 effect to your index in a row.
91 --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
92 GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and
93 defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
94 stuck to the option without a space.
98 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
99 See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
101 --strategy=<strategy>::
102 Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once.
103 See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1]
107 --strategy-option=<option>::
108 Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
109 merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details.
111 --rerere-autoupdate::
112 --no-rerere-autoupdate::
113 Allow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the
114 result of auto-conflict resolution if possible.
116 SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS
117 ---------------------
118 include::sequencer.txt[]
122 `git revert HEAD~3`::
124 Revert the changes specified by the fourth last commit in HEAD
125 and create a new commit with the reverted changes.
127 `git revert -n master~5..master~2`::
129 Revert the changes done by commits from the fifth last commit
130 in master (included) to the third last commit in master
131 (included), but do not create any commit with the reverted
132 changes. The revert only modifies the working tree and the
137 linkgit:git-cherry-pick[1]
141 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite