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Last Updated: 2024-04-18
A revert is a reverse patch. It totally undoes a change set - but without rewriting history. Therefore it shines when you've already pushed to a remote.
To revert the last three commits, you can feed it a range: from..to
git revert HEAD~3..HEAD
You can do the same range trick with commit hashes
git revert ads89ads..zsdf4321
If you are considering undoing multiple commits, you may want the --no-commit
option so as to reduce noise from having too many revert commits:
git revert --no-commit hash1 hash2
# ... and after this just commit every single revert as one commit
git commit -m "Message"