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Revert generally refers to operations that put a system, environment, or application into a previous state.

Revert generally refers to operations that put a system, environment, or application into a previous state.

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How do I revert all local changes in Git managed project to previous state?

I ran git status which told me everything was up to date and there were no local changes. Then I made several consecutive changes and realized I wanted to throw everything away and get back to my original state. Will this command do it for me? git…
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How do I "un-revert" a reverted Git commit?

Given a change that has been committed using commit, and then reverted using revert, what is the best way to then undo that revert? Ideally, this should be done with a new commit, so as to not re-write history.
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How can I revert a single file to a previous version?

Is there a way to go through different commits on a file. Say I modified a file 5 times and I want to go back to change 2, after I already committed and pushed to a repository. In my understanding the only way is to keep many branches, have I got…
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Remove specific commit

I was working with a friend on a project, and he edited a bunch of files that shouldn't have been edited. Somehow I merged his work into mine, either when I pulled it, or when I tried to just pick the specific files out that I wanted. I've been…
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How do I revert an SVN commit?

I have found various examples of how to revert an SVN commit like svn merge -r [current_version]:[previous_version] [repository_url] or svn merge -c -[R] . But neither of them seems to work. I tried those commands and checked the files that were…
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git revert back to certain commit

how do i revert all my files on my local copy back to a certain commit? commit 4a155e5b3b4548f5f8139b5210b9bb477fa549de Author: John Doe Date: Thu Jul 21 20:51:38 2011 -0500 This is the commit i'd like to revert back to.…
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git status shows modifications, git checkout -- doesn't remove them

I would like to remove all changes to my working copy. Running git status shows files modified. Nothing I do seems to remove these modifications. E.g.: rbellamy@PROMETHEUS /d/Development/rhino-etl (master) $ git status # On branch master # Changed…
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Mercurial — revert back to old version and continue from there

I'm using Mercurial locally for a project (it's the only repo there's no pushing/pulling to/from anywhere else). To date it's got a linear history. However, the current thing I'm working on I've now realized is a terrible approach and I want to go…
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Revert changes to a file in a commit

I want to revert changes made by a particular commit to a given file only. Can I use git revert command for that? Any other simple way to do it?
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Git undo changes in some files

While coding I added print statements into some files to keep track of what was going on. When I am done, is it possible to revert changes in some files, but commit the file I actually worked on? Say I added print in file A, but I modified file B.…
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Reverting single file in SVN to a particular revision

I have a file as shown below in an SVN repo that I would like to revert to a previous version. What is the way to do this in SVN? I want only downgrade this particular file to an older version, not the whole repo. Thanks. $ svn log…
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Revert a range of commits in git

How can I revert a range of commits in git? From looking at the gitrevisions documentation, I cannot see how to specify the range I need. For example: A -> B -> C -> D -> E -> HEAD I want to do the equivalent of: git revert B-D where the result…
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Can't seem to discard changes in Git

After seeing the following from the command line: # On branch RB_3.0.10 # Changed but not updated: # (use "git add ..." to update what will be committed) # (use "git checkout -- ..." to discard changes in working directory) # # …
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How do you revert to a specific tag in Git?

I know how to revert to older commits in a Git branch, but how do I revert back to a branch's state dictated by a tag? I envision something like this: git revert -bytag "Version 1.0 Revision 1.5" Is this possible?
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Git: How to revert 2 files that are stubbornly stuck at "Changed but not committed"?

I have a repo that has two files that supposedly I changed locally. So I'm stuck with this: $ git status # On branch master # Changed but not updated: # (use "git add ..." to update what will be committed) # (use "git checkout --…
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