git-revert

I am trying to revert to an earlier git commit but get the error "bad revision". Why? Here is a transcript (with author names removed): Ellen@ELLEN-PC /c/Users/Susan Mills/git/hello-github (master) $ git status # On branch master nothing to commit, working directory clean Ellen@ELLEN-PC /c/Users/Susan Mills/git/hello-github (master) $ git log | head commit e3eb30cc7ca6d4cd10de755b63821cad75da1e83 Date: Wed Feb 5 17:54:32 2014 -0800 I changed my greeting. commit 063ac580e28bab524286dac7b0a8f88d9e7d365f Date: Mon Feb 3 07:53:19 2014 -0800 Ellen@ELLEN-PC /c/Users/Susan Mills/git/hello-github

While trying to revert a commit I made to my repository of my .emacs.d folder I get the following message: haziz@haziz> git revert 7fe3f error: could not revert 7fe3f0b... .emacs.d contents from ubuntu hp 15 hint: after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths hint: with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>' hint: and commit the result with 'git commit' What I am trying to do is reverse changes I made to my init.el file and have followed with another commit which I am trying to reverse. I would prefer to revert rather than reset --hard since as far as I know the latter completely

I was working on my feature branch and after review, merged it into development to be deployed. Later, a coworker decided to do a release and merged his and mine into master . While deploying he realized his code was buggy and reverted master . In our fork-and-pull flow, that means that now development and master are both reverted. When I came in this morning, I rebased from development per usual, to learn afterward there had been a revert. Now I'm trying to cherry-pick my work from the original feature branch only to realize it gives me "empty commit messages" because of the revert. is this

I'm working with a repository where a merge was performed weeks ago which we just discovered used the --strategy=ours flag (it was supposed to use the --strategy-option=ours flag), thus not applying any changes to HEAD. However, we need to have the changes applied. Git already recognizes the branch as being merged and the commits in the history of the branch. This sort of merge can't be reverted using git revert -m ... What would be the proper way of reverting and/or re-applying the merge to change the files? master A - B - E - F - G ---> L - M - N \ / topic C - D Merge commit (F) would be the

I had a feature branch created, let's say feature/branch1 on github. I created a pull request for it and got it merged. When it reached our pipeline, we figured there was a problem and we got it reverted using the Revert button on Git This created a "Revert" PR that we merged with the master and all was well. After a few weeks, post other PRs that got merged into the master, we figured we would revert-the-revert . This time, we went into the Revert PR that was closed and tried to use the Revert button again. But we got this error message Sorry, this pull request couldn't be reverted

I've merged a master branch from a friend's repository into my working directory into branch_a using: git pull my_friend master I've discovered that the merged version has errors. To continue development I would like to revert to my last commit before the merge. I tried: git reset --hard HEAD But that brought me back to the state right after the merge. (does pull command commit?!) I also tried: git revert HEAD but received the following error: fatal: Commit 2d72d8f367b987d8c16f5cb1a543a6886acdcf83 is a merge but no -m option was given. What should I do? HEAD refers to the current commit