How to delete commits from git on Github and Bitbucket

Question

I accidentally pushed up files from my .idea directory in my Django project which I had in my .gitignore file. I am trying to completely delete the commit from my bitbucket repo

Answer 1

Even if the commits are HARD reset, unwanted commits would still show up in the history. If the history also needs to be reset, then I am afraid only way to do that is to delete and recreate the branch.

Answer 2

Use git reset --hard 3813803. This can not be undone and works locally as well as remote.

For remote push using git push --force origin master

Have a look at the git docu by Atlassian here.

Let me also quote from there:

Whereas reverting is designed to safely undo a public commit, git reset is designed to undo local changes. Because of their distinct goals, the two commands are implemented differently: resetting completely removes a changeset, whereas reverting maintains the original changeset and uses a new commit to apply the undo.

git reset is the one to be used here, though, because you are asking for complete deletion.