6 git-revert - Revert some existing commits
11 'git revert' [--[no-]edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-S[<keyid>]] <commit>...
12 'git revert' (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit)
17 Given one or more existing commits, revert the changes that the
18 related patches introduce, and record some new commits that record
19 them. This requires your working tree to be clean (no modifications
20 from the HEAD commit).
22 Note: 'git revert' is used to record some new commits to reverse the
23 effect of some earlier commits (often only a faulty one). If you want to
24 throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
25 should see linkgit:git-reset[1], particularly the `--hard` option. If
26 you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you
27 should see linkgit:git-checkout[1], specifically the `git checkout
28 <commit> -- <filename>` syntax. Take care with these alternatives as
29 both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory.
35 For a more complete list of ways to spell commit names, see
36 linkgit:gitrevisions[7].
37 Sets of commits can also be given but no traversal is done by
38 default, see linkgit:git-rev-list[1] and its `--no-walk`
43 With this option, 'git revert' will let you edit the commit
44 message prior to committing the revert. This is the default if
45 you run the command from a terminal.
48 --mainline parent-number::
49 Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
50 side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
51 option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
52 the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
53 relative to the specified parent.
55 Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree changes
56 brought in by the merge. As a result, later merges will only bring in tree
57 changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the previously
58 reverted merge. This may or may not be what you want.
60 See the link:howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html[revert-a-faulty-merge How-To] for
64 With this option, 'git revert' will not start the commit
68 This option determines how the commit message will be cleaned up before
69 being passed on to the commit machinery. See linkgit:git-commit[1] for more
70 details. In particular, if the '<mode>' is given a value of `scissors`,
71 scissors will be appended to `MERGE_MSG` before being passed on in the case
76 Usually the command automatically creates some commits with
77 commit log messages stating which commits were
78 reverted. This flag applies the changes necessary
79 to revert the named commits to your working tree
80 and the index, but does not make the commits. In addition,
81 when this option is used, your index does not have to match
82 the HEAD commit. The revert is done against the
83 beginning state of your index.
85 This is useful when reverting more than one commits'
86 effect to your index in a row.
89 --gpg-sign[=<keyid>]::
90 GPG-sign commits. The `keyid` argument is optional and
91 defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be
92 stuck to the option without a space.
96 Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
97 See the signoff option in linkgit:git-commit[1] for more information.
99 --strategy=<strategy>::
100 Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once.
101 See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in linkgit:git-merge[1]
105 --strategy-option=<option>::
106 Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the
107 merge strategy. See linkgit:git-merge[1] for details.
109 --rerere-autoupdate::
110 --no-rerere-autoupdate::
111 Allow the rerere mechanism to update the index with the
112 result of auto-conflict resolution if possible.
114 SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS
115 ---------------------
116 include::sequencer.txt[]
120 `git revert HEAD~3`::
122 Revert the changes specified by the fourth last commit in HEAD
123 and create a new commit with the reverted changes.
125 `git revert -n master~5..master~2`::
127 Revert the changes done by commits from the fifth last commit
128 in master (included) to the third last commit in master
129 (included), but do not create any commit with the reverted
130 changes. The revert only modifies the working tree and the
135 linkgit:git-cherry-pick[1]
139 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite