How do I reverse a commit in git?

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David Mulder picture David Mulder · Mar 21, 2011 · Viewed 105.1k times · Source

I'm not really familiar with how git works. I pushed a commit by mistake and want to revert it. I did a 

git reset --hard HEAD~1

Beware Fellow Googlers: This does not only revert the commit, but discards all file changes!

and now the project is reverted on my machine, but not on github. If I try to push this code, I get the error 'Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 1 commit, and can be fast-forwarded.' How do I remove this commit from github?

Answer

AmpT picture AmpT · Feb 6, 2014

This article has an excellent explanation as to how to go about various scenarios (where a commit has been done as well as the push OR just a commit, before the push):

http://christoph.ruegg.name/blog/git-howto-revert-a-commit-already-pushed-to-a-remote-reposit.html

From the article, the easiest command I saw to revert a previous commit by its commit id, was:

git revert dd61ab32

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