Undoing a 'git push'

Question

Here\'s what I did on my supposed-to-be-stable branch...

% git rebase master
First, rewinding head to repla         


        

Answer 1

I believe that you can also do this:

git checkout alpha-0.3.0
git reset --hard cc4b63bebb6
git push origin +alpha-0.3.0

This is very similar to the last method, except you don't have to muck around in the remote repo.

Answer 2

You need to make sure that no other users of this repository are fetching the incorrect changes or trying to build on top of the commits that you want removed because you are about to rewind history.

Then you need to 'force' push the old reference.

git push -f origin last_known_good_commit:branch_name

or in your case

git push -f origin cc4b63bebb6:alpha-0.3.0

You may have receive.denyNonFastForwards set on the remote repository. If this is the case, then you will get an error which includes the phrase [remote rejected].

In this scenario, you will have to delete and recreate the branch.

git push origin :alpha-0.3.0
git push origin cc4b63bebb6:refs/heads/alpha-0.3.0

If this doesn't work - perhaps because you have receive.denyDeletes set, then you have to have direct access to the repository. In the remote repository, you then have to do something like the following plumbing command.

git update-ref refs/heads/alpha-0.3.0 cc4b63bebb6 83c9191dea8

Answer 3

A way to do it without losing the changes you wanted:

git reset cc4b63b 
git stash
git push -f origin alpha-0.3.0
git stash pop

Then you can choose the files you meant to push

Answer 4

The accepted solution (from @charles bailey) is highly dangerous if you are working in a shared repo.

As a best practice, all commits pushed to a remote repo that is shared should be considered 'immutable'. Use 'git revert' instead: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#fixing-mistakes

https://git-scm.com/book/be/v2/Git-Basics-Undoing-Things

Answer 5

Scenario 1: If you want to undo the last commit say 8123b7e04b3, below is the command(this worked for me):

git push origin +8123b7e04b3^:<branch_name>

Output looks like below:

Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To https://testlocation/code.git
 + 8123b7e...92bc500 8123b7e04b3^ -> master (forced update)

Additional info: Scenario 2: In some situation, you may want to revert back what you just undo'ed (basically undo the undo) through the previous command, then use the below command:

git reset --hard 8123b7e04b3

Output:

HEAD is now at cc6206c Comment_that_was_entered_for_commit

More info here: https://github.com/blog/2019-how-to-undo-almost-anything-with-git

Answer 6

Another way to do this:

1. create another branch
2. checkout the previous commit on that branch using "git checkout"
3. push the new branch.
4. delete the old branch & push the delete (use git push origin --delete <branch_name>)
5. rename the new branch into the old branch
6. push again.