How to permanently remove few commits from remote branch

Question

I know that\'s rewriting of history which is bad yada yada.

But how to permanently remove few commits from remote branch?

Answer 1

Simplifying from pctroll's answer, similarly based on this blog post.

# look up the commit id in git log or on github, e.g. 42480f3, then do
git checkout master
git checkout your_branch
git revert 42480f3
# a text editor will open, close it with ctrl+x (editor dependent)
git push origin your_branch
# or replace origin with your remote

Answer 2

This might be too little too late but what helped me is the cool sounding 'nuclear' option. Basically using the command filter-branch you can remove files or change something over a large number of files throughout your entire git history.

It is best explained here.