How to Remove a Commit⚓
Summary⚓
This article will quickly explain how to remove a previous commit using Git.
How-to⚓
To remove the last commit from git, you can simply run git reset --hard HEAD^ If you are removing multiple commits from the top, you can run git reset --hard HEAD~2 to remove the last two commits. You can increase the number to remove even more commits.
If you want to "un-commit" the commits, but keep the changes around for reworking, remove the "--hard": git reset HEAD^ which will evict the commits from the branch and from the index, but leave the working tree around.
If you want to save the commits on a new branch name, then run git branch newbranchname before doing the git reset.
Specific Cases⚓
git reset --hard <commit-id>can be used to remove a specific commit-id from the last commit you want to jump back to.- To force to remove the last commit from git,
use these 2 following commands: