Git History and Reverting Commits

Welcome to Chapter 7, where we’re about to go on a fascinating journey through the history of your coding projects, guided by Git and GitHub. Understanding how history works in these tools is like having a time machine at your fingertips, giving you the power to revisit, analyze, and modify your project’s past.

First, we will navigate history with the git log and git reflog commands. Next, we will learn how to pinpoint exactly when and where bugs were introduced in your code using the git bisect command. We will then master the arts of reverting commits, resetting progress, and cherry-picking changes to keep your project timeline clean and efficient. So, let’s start this adventure!

Here’s what you will learn about in this chapter:

• Understanding Git and GitHub history – tracking changes to your website
• Explaining git bisect – finding the needle in the haystack
• Reverting commits to a previous...