Reverting specific commits from git
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Solution
You can use `git revert` with the `--no-commit` option. In your example:
$ git revert --no-commit b49eb8e 1d8b062
# Files that were modified in those 2 commits will be changed in your working directory
# If any of those 2 commits had changed the file 'a' then you could discard the revert for it:
$ git checkout a
$ git commit -a -m "Revert commits b49eb8e and 1d8b062"
`--no-commit` option will not do auto commit, it allows you to edit and add your own commit message
Note that with unlike `git reset` with `git revert` all the reverted commits will still be there in the commit history
Problem
I have a git tree with a lot of commits and a lot of files. Now, I want to revert specific commits that touch a file only. To explain: ``` > git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/psankar/specific/.git/ > echo "File a" > a > git add a ; git commit -m "File a" [master (root-commit) 5267c21] File a 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 a > echo "File b" > b > git add b; git commit -m "File b" [master 7b560ae] File b 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 b > echo "File c" > c > git add c; git commit -m "File c" [master fd6c132] File c 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 c > echo "b and c modified" > b ; cp b c > git commit -a -m "b and c modified" [master 1d8b062] b and c modified 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > echo "a modified" > a > git commit -a -m "a modified" [master 5b7e0cd] a modified 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > echo "c modified" > c > git commit -a -m "c modified" [master b49eb8e] c modified 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > git log --pretty=oneline c > git log --pretty=oneline c | cat b49eb8e03af331bddf90342af7d076f831282bc9 c modified 1d8b062748f23d5b75a77f120930af6610b8ff98 b and c modified fd6c13282ae887598d39bcd894c050878c53ccf1 File c ``` Now I want to revert just the two commits b49eb8 and 1d8b06 without reverting the changes to a. IOW revert only the commits in a file (without reverting other intermediate commits (which may be thousands in number) in different files) How is this possible ?