How to revert last commit and remove it from history?

Question

I did a commit and reverted with

git revert HEAD^

just git log

➜  git:(master) git log
commit 45a0b1371e4705c4f875141232d7         


        

Answer 1

Here is a simple working solution that delete the last commit from remote:

1. clone the repo and find the last 'good' commit (....c407)

$ git clone git@host:PROJ/myrepo.git 
$ cd myrepo 
$ git log --pretty=oneline

234987fed789de97232ababababcef3234958723 bad_commit
e4a2ec4a80ef63e1e2e694051d9eb3951b14c407 v4.3
2f116449144dbe46e7260d5dac2304803751b5c2 v4.2

2. checkout the last good commit to a new temp branch

$ git checkout e4a2ec4a80ef63e1e2e694051d9eb3951b14c407
$ git checkout -b temp_branch

3. replace the remote branch ( by delete and push the temp )

git push origin --delete dev_branch
git push origin temp_branch:dev_branch