Git Delete Last Commit

bilalshussain@gmail.com (Bilal Syed Hussain) — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:36:06 +0000

If you have committed files that you shouldn’t have (e.g. passwords) you can use the following to delete the last commit provided the commit has not been pushed.

git reset --hard HEAD~1

HEAD~1 means the pervious commit, you can also use the SHA-1 of a commit to delete all commits back to that commit.

Note that --hard gets rid of any changes from the selected commit(s). Use --soft to leave the files as changes to be committed.

If you have pushed the commit then you can either do

git revert HEAD

which creates a new commit that revert changes in the last commit but the data is still present in the history of the repository.

Even if you tried to do git push --force after you deleted the commit from your copy the data will exist in people locals copies until they pull the latest changes. This also makes merging a lot more difficult.

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Git Delete Last Commit