Revert last commit by discarding everything with git reset --hard HEAD

14/03/2015 - GIT

You just want to go one commit back and discard everything you have done. For this purpose we use git reset --hard HEAD~1 or git reset --hard paste-commit-id-here command. For more information, click git reset link.


Check current status


inanzzz@inanzzz:~/project$ git status
On branch branch-one
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

	modified:   file_five.txt
	modified:   file_four.txt

Untracked files:
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)

	file_eight.txt

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

Commit


inanzzz@inanzzz:~/project$ git add --all
inanzzz@inanzzz:~/project$ git commit -m 'Second commit in branch-one branch'
[branch-one db8957f] Second commit in branch-one branch
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 file_eight.txt

Check commit log


inanzzz@inanzzz:~/project$ git log
commit db8957fb94f9a32bca1ae57d4e6ed8340efb9c6b
Author: inanzzz 
Date:   Sat Mar 14 11:41:31 2015 +0000

    Second commit in branch-one branch

commit 2ed26e52092851f40ea4fec60d357cd138f04209
Author: inanzzz 
Date:   Sat Mar 14 11:40:05 2015 +0000

    First commit in branch-one branch

commit 1c5d63e1a8296bffbdda34863a91851ec3fcb665
Author: inanzzz 
Date:   Sat Mar 14 11:38:48 2015 +0000

    Second commit in develop branch

commit f2af40db65826acd4606986acc1a9738297b1efb
Author: inanzzz 
Date:   Sat Mar 14 11:37:32 2015 +0000

    First commit in develop branch

Revert last commit


This will remove commit "db8957fb94f9a32bca1ae57d4e6ed8340efb9c6b" from the log.


inanzzz@inanzzz:~/project$ git reset --hard HEAD~1

or


inanzzz@inanzzz:~/project$ git reset --hard 2ed26e52092851f40ea4fec60d357cd138f04209

Check commit log


inanzzz@inanzzz:~/project$ git log
commit 2ed26e52092851f40ea4fec60d357cd138f04209
Author: inanzzz 
Date:   Sat Mar 14 11:40:05 2015 +0000

    First commit in branch-one branch

commit 1c5d63e1a8296bffbdda34863a91851ec3fcb665
Author: inanzzz 
Date:   Sat Mar 14 11:38:48 2015 +0000

    Second commit in develop branch

commit f2af40db65826acd4606986acc1a9738297b1efb
Author: inanzzz 
Date:   Sat Mar 14 11:37:32 2015 +0000

    First commit in develop branch

Check current status


As we can see everything has been wiped out.


inanzzz@inanzzz:~/project$ git status
On branch branch-one
nothing to commit, working directory clean