How can I rollback a github repository to a specific commit?

Question

My github has 100 commits in it right now. I need to rollback the repository to commit 80, and remove all the subsequent ones.

Why? This repo is supposed to be fo

Answer 1

To undo the most recent commit I do this:

First:

git log

get the very latest SHA id to undo.

git revert SHA

That will create a new commit that does the exact opposite of your commit. Then you can push this new commit to bring your app to the state it was before, and your git history will show these changes accordingly.

This is good for an immediate redo of something you just committed, which I find is more often the case for me.

As Mike metioned, you can also do this:

git revert HEAD