how to revert TILL specific commit in git

Question

i want to revert TILL specific commit in git

i have done 3 commits in git

• 1st commit > 1:am
• 2nd commit > 2:am
• 3rd commit > 3:am

now i want to revert directly to this specific 1st commit !

Answer 1

You can do this to completely remove the unwanted commits from the history:

$ git reset --hard HEAD^^^

However if you want to preserve the history, you should use git-revert:

$ git revert <sha1-of-3rd-commit> <sha1-of-2nd-commit>

This will apply new commits that revert the old ones.