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31 git-revert \- Revert some existing commits
35 \fIgit revert\fR [\-\-[no\-]edit] [\-n] [\-m <parent\-number>] [\-s] [\-S[<keyid>]] <commit>\&...
36 \fIgit revert\fR (\-\-continue | \-\-skip | \-\-abort | \-\-quit)
41 Given one or more existing commits, revert the changes that the related patches introduce, and record some new commits that record them\&. This requires your working tree to be clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit)\&.
43 Note: \fIgit revert\fR is used to record some new commits to reverse the effect of some earlier commits (often only a faulty one)\&. If you want to throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you should see \fBgit-reset\fR(1), particularly the \fB\-\-hard\fR option\&. If you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you should see \fBgit-restore\fR(1), specifically the \fB\-\-source\fR option\&. Take care with these alternatives as both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory\&.
45 See "Reset, restore and revert" in \fBgit\fR(1) for the differences between the three commands\&.
50 Commits to revert\&. For a more complete list of ways to spell commit names, see
51 \fBgitrevisions\fR(7)\&. Sets of commits can also be given but no traversal is done by default, see
62 will let you edit the commit message prior to committing the revert\&. This is the default if you run the command from a terminal\&.
65 \-m parent\-number, \-\-mainline parent\-number
67 Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which side of the merge should be considered the mainline\&. This option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change relative to the specified parent\&.
69 Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree changes brought in by the merge\&. As a result, later merges will only bring in tree changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the previously reverted merge\&. This may or may not be what you want\&.
72 \m[blue]\fBrevert\-a\-faulty\-merge How\-To\fR\m[]\&\s-2\u[1]\d\s+2
80 will not start the commit message editor\&.
85 This option determines how the commit message will be cleaned up before being passed on to the commit machinery\&. See
87 for more details\&. In particular, if the
90 \fBscissors\fR, scissors will be appended to
92 before being passed on in the case of a conflict\&.
97 Usually the command automatically creates some commits with commit log messages stating which commits were reverted\&. This flag applies the changes necessary to revert the named commits to your working tree and the index, but does not make the commits\&. In addition, when this option is used, your index does not have to match the HEAD commit\&. The revert is done against the beginning state of your index\&.
99 This is useful when reverting more than one commits\*(Aq effect to your index in a row\&.
102 \-S[<keyid>], \-\-gpg\-sign[=<keyid>], \-\-no\-gpg\-sign
104 GPG\-sign commits\&. The
106 argument is optional and defaults to the committer identity; if specified, it must be stuck to the option without a space\&.
107 \fB\-\-no\-gpg\-sign\fR
108 is useful to countermand both
109 \fBcommit\&.gpgSign\fR
110 configuration variable, and earlier
111 \fB\-\-gpg\-sign\fR\&.
117 \fBSigned\-off\-by\fR
118 trailer at the end of the commit message\&. See the signoff option in
120 for more information\&.
123 \-\-strategy=<strategy>
125 Use the given merge strategy\&. Should only be used once\&. See the MERGE STRATEGIES section in
130 \-X<option>, \-\-strategy\-option=<option>
132 Pass the merge strategy\-specific option through to the merge strategy\&. See
137 \-\-rerere\-autoupdate, \-\-no\-rerere\-autoupdate
139 After the rerere mechanism reuses a recorded resolution on the current conflict to update the files in the working tree, allow it to also update the index with the result of resolution\&.
140 \fB\-\-no\-rerere\-autoupdate\fR
141 is a good way to double\-check what
143 did and catch potential mismerges, before committing the result to the index with a separate
149 Instead of starting the body of the log message with "This reverts <full object name of the commit being reverted>\&.", refer to the commit using "\-\-pretty=reference" format (cf\&.
150 \fBgit-log\fR(1))\&. The
151 \fBrevert\&.reference\fR
152 configuration variable can be used to enable this option by default\&.
154 .SH "SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS"
158 Continue the operation in progress using the information in
159 \fB\&.git/sequencer\fR\&. Can be used to continue after resolving conflicts in a failed cherry\-pick or revert\&.
164 Skip the current commit and continue with the rest of the sequence\&.
169 Forget about the current operation in progress\&. Can be used to clear the sequencer state after a failed cherry\-pick or revert\&.
174 Cancel the operation and return to the pre\-sequence state\&.
178 \fBgit revert HEAD~3\fR
180 Revert the changes specified by the fourth last commit in HEAD and create a new commit with the reverted changes\&.
183 \fBgit revert \-n master~5\&.\&.master~2\fR
185 Revert the changes done by commits from the fifth last commit in master (included) to the third last commit in master (included), but do not create any commit with the reverted changes\&. The revert only modifies the working tree and the index\&.
189 Everything below this line in this section is selectively included from the \fBgit-config\fR(1) documentation\&. The content is the same as what\(cqs found there:
193 Setting this variable to true makes
201 \fBgit-cherry-pick\fR(1)
204 Part of the \fBgit\fR(1) suite
207 revert-a-faulty-merge How-To
209 \%git-htmldocs/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html