How to revert a Git repository to a previous commit

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about how to undo the git repository to a previous commit.

Reverting git to a previous commit (locally)

If your commit is not pushed to a remote git repository and you are trying to revert it to a previous commit follow the below steps.

1. Inside the command line navigate to a repository, you want to undo it back to a previous commit.

2. Run the git revert command followed by the HEAD reference.

git revert HEAD

This above command will create a new commit based on the previous commit, it doesn’t change any previous commit history.

Note: Head is referencing to a last commit in the current branch

Reverting git to a previous commit (remotely)

If your commit is pushed to a remote git repository and you are trying to revert it to a previous commit.

1. Follow the above two steps

2. Now, push your repository to remote by running the git push command followed by the -f flag.

git push -f