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GIT-REVERT(1) Git Manual GIT-REVERT(1)
git-revert - Revert some existing commits
git revert [--[no-]edit] [-n] [-m <parent-number>] [-s] [-S[<keyid>]] <commit>...
git revert (--continue | --skip | --abort | --quit)
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.
<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.
--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.
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.
While git creates a basic commit message automatically, it is
strongly recommended to explain why the original commit is being
reverted. In addition, repeatedly reverting reverts will result in
increasingly unwieldy subject lines, for example Reapply "Reapply
"<original-subject>"". Please consider rewording these to be
shorter and more unique.
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.
git-cherry-pick(1)
Part of the git(1) suite
1. revert-a-faulty-merge How-To
file:///home/mtk/share/doc/git-doc/howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.html
This page is part of the git (Git distributed version control
system) project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨http://git-scm.com/⟩. If you have a bug report for this manual
page, see ⟨http://git-scm.com/community⟩. This page was obtained
from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨https://github.com/git/git.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At that time,
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Git 2.51.0.rc1 2025-08-07 GIT-REVERT(1)
Pages that refer to this page: git(1), git-cherry-pick(1), giteveryday(7)
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