Revert to a commit by a SHA hash in Git? [duplicat

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I'm not clear on how git revert works. For example, I want to revert to a commit six commits behind the head, reverting all the changes in the intermediary commits in between.

Say its SHA hash is 56e05fced214c44a37759efa2dfc25a65d8ae98d. Then why can't I just do something like:

git revert 56e05fced214c44a37759efa2dfc25a65d8ae98d

Answer 1

If your changes have already been pushed to a public, shared remote, and you want to revert all commits between HEAD and <sha-id>, then you can pass a commit range to git revert,

git revert 56e05f..HEAD

and it will revert all commits between 56e05f and HEAD (excluding the start point of the range, 56e05f).

Answer 2

This might work:

git checkout 56e05f
echo ref: refs/heads/master > .git/HEAD
git commit

Answer 3

Should be as simple as:

git reset --hard 56e05f

That'll get you back to that specific point in time.