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===== Overview =====

How to revert one or more commits, dealing with any possible merge conflicts along the way.

===== SYNOPSIS =====

<code>
git revert [--[no-]edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-S[<keyid>]] <commit>...
git revert --continue
git revert --quit
git revert --abort
</code>

===== DESCRIPTION =====

Note carefully //lack of traversal//:

<code>
<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.
</code>

===== The variations =====

==== Reverting a single commit ====

How:

<code>
$ git revert 2965b41
</code>

which throws you into a commit edit session based on the earlier commit message:

<code>
Revert "HTTP->HTTPS"

This reverts commit 2965b41fd84a1a76f56984ecdf6c123d1992730f.
... snip ...
</code>

The default is ''%%--%%edit'' if done from a terminal; you can override with ''%%--%%no-edit''.

==== Reverting a range of commits ====

Revert commits individually (revert ''v1.0'' (not included) up to and //including// ''v1.1''):

<code>
$ git revert v1.0..v1.1
</code>

Revert commits in one operation but do not commit so you can tweak further:

<code>
$ git revert -n v1.0..v1.1
</code>

==== Reverting one file ====

<code>
$ git diff HEAD HEAD^ -- <filename> | git apply -
</code>