How to revert a merge commit that's already pushed to remote branch?

Question

git revert alone won\'t work. -m must be specified, and I\'m pretty confused about it.

Anyone experienced this before?<

Answer 1

Here's a complete example in the hope that it helps someone:

git revert -m 1  
git push -u origin master

Where is the commit hash of the merge that you would like to revert, and as stated in the explanation of this answer, -m 1 indicates that you'd like to revert to the tree of the first parent prior to the merge.

The git revert ... line essentially commits your changes while the second line makes your changes public by pushing them to the remote branch.