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-restore[1], specifically the `--source`
30 option. Take care with these alternatives as
31 both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory.
33 See "Reset, restore and revert" in linkgit:git[1] for the differences
34 between the three commands.
40 For a more complete list of ways to spell commit names, see
41 linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
42 Sets of commits can also be given but no traversal is done by
43 default, see linkgit:git-rev-list[1] and its `--no-walk`
48 With this option, 'git revert' will let you edit the commit
49 message prior to committing the revert. This is the default if
50 you run the command from a terminal.
53 --mainline parent-number::
54 Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
55 side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
56 option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
57 the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
58 relative to the specified parent.
60 Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree changes
61 brought in by the merge. As a result, later merges will only bring in tree
62 changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the previously
63 reverted merge. This may or may not be what you want.
65 See the link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for
69 With this option, 'git revert' will not start the commit
73 This option determines how the commit message will be cleaned up before
74 being passed on to the commit machinery. See linkgit:git-commit[1] for more
75 details. In particular, if the '<mode>' is given a value of `scissors`,
76 scissors will be appended to `MERGE_MSG` before being passed on in the case
81 Usually the command automatically creates some commits with
82 commit log messages stating which commits were
83 reverted. This flag applies the changes necessary
84 to revert the named commits to your working tree
85 and the index, but does not make the commits. In addition,
86 when this option is used, your index does not have to match
87 the HEAD commit. The revert is done against the
88 beginning state of your index.
90 This is useful when reverting more than one commits'
91 effect to your index in a row.
94 --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
95 GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and
96 defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
97 stuck to the option without a space.
101 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
102 See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
104 --strategy=<strategy>::
105 Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once.
106 See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1]
110 --strategy-option=<option>::
111 Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
112 merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details.
114 --rerere-autoupdate::
115 --no-rerere-autoupdate::
116 Allow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the
117 result of auto-conflict resolution if possible.
119 SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS
120 ---------------------
121 include::sequencer.txt[]
125 `git revert HEAD~3`::
127 Revert the changes specified by the fourth last commit in HEAD
128 and create a new commit with the reverted changes.
130 `git revert -n master~5..master~2`::
132 Revert the changes done by commits from the fifth last commit
133 in master (included) to the third last commit in master
134 (included), but do not create any commit with the reverted
135 changes. The revert only modifies the working tree and the
140 linkgit:git-cherry-pick[1]
144 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite