GIT-REVERT(1)			  Git Manual			 GIT-REVERT(1)



NAME
       git-revert - Revert some existing commits

SYNOPSIS
       git revert [--[no-]edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-S[<keyid>]] <commit>...
       git revert (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit)


DESCRIPTION
       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).

       Note: git revert 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 git-reset(1), particularly the --hard option. If you want to
       extract specific files as they were in another commit, you should see
       git-restore(1), specifically the --source option. Take care with these
       alternatives as both will discard uncommitted changes in your working
       directory.

       See "Reset, restore and revert" in git(1) for the differences between
       the three commands.

OPTIONS
       <commit>...
	   Commits to revert. For a more complete list of ways to spell commit
	   names, see gitrevisions(7). Sets of commits can also be given but
	   no traversal is done by default, see git-rev-list(1) and its
	   --no-walk option.

       -e, --edit
	   With this option, git revert will let you edit the commit message
	   prior to committing the revert. This is the default if you run the
	   command from a terminal.

       -m parent-number, --mainline parent-number
	   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.

	   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.

	   See the revert-a-faulty-merge How-To[1] for more details.

       --no-edit
	   With this option, git revert will not start the commit message
	   editor.

       --cleanup=<mode>
	   This option determines how the commit message will be cleaned up
	   before being passed on to the commit machinery. See git-commit(1)
	   for more details. In particular, if the <mode> is given a value of
	   scissors, scissors will be appended to MERGE_MSG before being
	   passed on in the case of a conflict.

       -n, --no-commit
	   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.

	   This is useful when reverting more than one commits' effect to your
	   index in a row.

       -S[<keyid>], --gpg-sign[=<keyid>], --no-gpg-sign
	   GPG-sign commits. The keyid argument is optional and defaults to
	   the committer identity; if specified, it must be stuck to the
	   option without a space.  --no-gpg-sign is useful to countermand
	   both commit.gpgSign configuration variable, and earlier --gpg-sign.

       -s, --signoff
	   Add a Signed-off-by trailer at the end of the commit message. See
	   the signoff option in git-commit(1) for more information.

       --strategy=<strategy>
	   Use the given merge strategy. Should only be used once. See the
	   MERGE STRATEGIES section in git-merge(1) for details.

       -X<option>, --strategy-option=<option>
	   Pass the merge strategy-specific option through to the merge
	   strategy. See git-merge(1) for details.

       --rerere-autoupdate, --no-rerere-autoupdate
	   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.
	   --no-rerere-autoupdate is a good way to double-check what rerere
	   did and catch potential mismerges, before committing the result to
	   the index with a separate git add.

       --reference
	   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.  git-log(1)). The
	   revert.reference configuration variable can be used to enable this
	   option by default.

SEQUENCER SUBCOMMANDS
       --continue
	   Continue the operation in progress using the information in
	   .git/sequencer. Can be used to continue after resolving conflicts
	   in a failed cherry-pick or revert.

       --skip
	   Skip the current commit and continue with the rest of the sequence.

       --quit
	   Forget about the current operation in progress. Can be used to
	   clear the sequencer state after a failed cherry-pick or revert.

       --abort
	   Cancel the operation and return to the pre-sequence state.

EXAMPLES
       git revert HEAD~3
	   Revert the changes specified by the fourth last commit in HEAD and
	   create a new commit with the reverted changes.

       git revert -n master~5..master~2
	   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.

CONFIGURATION
       Everything below this line in this section is selectively included from
       the git-config(1) documentation. The content is the same as what's
       found there:

       revert.reference
	   Setting this variable to true makes git revert behave as if the
	   --reference option is given.

SEE ALSO
       git-cherry-pick(1)

GIT
       Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES
	1. revert-a-faulty-merge How-To
	   file:///usr/share/doc/git-2.38.4/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html



Git 2.38.4			  02/20/2023			 GIT-REVERT(1)