Even though your history has changed, you can create branches that let you go back and experiment. Git means never having to say, “you should have.” If you converge on a reality you like better, then go with it. Otherwise, throw it away. The examples below will create new branches that leave everything else in … Read more
You don’t need find or sed, you can use wildcards as git understands them (doesn’t depend on your shell): git checkout — “*.xml” The quotes will prevent your shell to expand the command to only files in the current directory before its execution. You can also disable shell glob expansion (with bash) : set -f … Read more
I don’t know of any way to do exactly what you’re asking (one can roll back to first commit, but not delete all history, since the history will at least contain that initial commit.) If I were you I’d just delete the remote repo and the .git directory of the local repo, and start over … Read more
You probably want to use git reset. Assuming you have done a git fetch recently, the following will discard everything in your local and reset it to the point you specify as the final argument (in this case the current HEAD of the origin/master remote tracking branch): $ git reset –hard origin/master
I would leave off the –soft in the other two answers and go with a simple git reset @^ (or git reset HEAD^ in older versions of git), which will default to git reset –mixed @^. The difference is that a soft reset leaves the files staged for commit, which is not what it sounds … Read more
One way to achieve this is through git reset. While on branch B execute git reset –hard A Thereafter, branch B points to the head-commit of A. The –hard option resets the index and working tree so that all tracked files are reset to the version in branch A. The old HEAD commit-ID of A … Read more
You are trying to revert a merge commit, and git doesn’t know which parent to revert to. The -m allows us to choose which parent to choose. See the merge commit and note down which parent you want to go to. The parent information can be seen in git log, for example: commit d02ee0f2179def10277f30c71c5d6f59ded3c595 Merge: … Read more
Yes, you can use git revert for this. See the git manual section on this for more information. The gist is that you can say: git revert 4f4k2a Where 4f4k2a is the id of the commit you’d like to undo, and it will try to undo it.
The terms revert and amend have a well defined meaning in Git. In contrast, rollback and undo do not have such a well defined meaning, and are open to interpretation. Reverting a commit… …means creating (on the current branch) a new commit that applies the inverse changes that another commit introduced. It’s the preferred approach … Read more
This means that you need to explicitly tell Git that you’ve resolved a conflict at each file or folder (that is path). 1. Look at the list of files with yet unresolved conflicts git status 2. Mark each file as resolved Once you have resolved conflicts in a file, add it to mark that conflicts … Read more