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Git for Programmers

You're reading from   Git for Programmers Master Git for effective implementation of version control for your programming projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801075732
Length 264 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jesse Liberty Jesse Liberty
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction 2. Creating Your Repository FREE CHAPTER 3. Branching, Places, and GUIs 4. Merging, Pull Requests, and Handling Merge Conflicts 5. Rebasing, Amend, and Cherry-Picking 6. Interactive Rebasing 7. Workflow, Notes, and Tags 8. Aliases 9. Using the Log 10. Important Git Commands and Metadata 11. Finding a Broken Commit: Bisect and Blame 12. Fixing Mistakes 13. Next Steps
14. Other Books You May Enjoy
15. Index

You need to undo changes made in a commit

All you need to do here is to call the log, get the ObjectID of the commit you want to undo and call:

git revert ObjectID

Let's go back to the log:

Figure 12.3: Log, starting point

Now let's revert the commit that added the hello message:

git revert c507abf

Because I reverted a change in the middle of the branch, it's no surprise that I run into a merge conflict:

Figure 12.4: Merge conflict

To solve this I will call git mergetool, invoking the tool I set up in Chapter 4, Merging, Pull Requests, and Handling Merge Conflicts. Kdiff3 is smart enough to fix all the conflicts without my help:

Figure 12.5: Kdiff3 fixes the conflicts for me

Sure enough, when we open Program.cs the Hello World is gone:

Figure 12.6: Program.cs after revert

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