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reverse a commit #77

Open EstherKatz opened 9 years ago

EstherKatz commented 9 years ago

is there a way to reverse my last 3/4/2015 merge commit.

CathyHajo commented 9 years ago

It gives an error "Cannot revert a merge commit. Open a Git Shell and run git revert with the -m option to specifiy which parent to revert to." How do we know which parent?

JonathanReeve commented 9 years ago

If you look at your commit history (either on GitHub or in the GitHub for Windows app), you'll see that each commit has an identifier like 572fa7c attached to it. Find the commit that you want to go back to, and use that identifier with the command, like git revert -m 572fa7c. That should take you "back in time" to that commit.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Cathy Moran Hajo notifications@github.com wrote:

It gives an error "Cannot revert a merge commit. Open a Git Shell and run git revert with the -m option to specifiy which parent to revert to." How do we know which parent?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/JonathanReeve/sanger/issues/77#issuecomment-77254049.