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 <title>git-revert(1)</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 <div id="header">
 <h1>
 git-revert(1) Manual Page
 </h1>
 <h2>NAME</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <p>git-revert -
  Revert an existing commit
 </p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="para"><p><em>git revert</em> [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] &lt;commit&gt;</p></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="para"><p>Given one existing commit, revert the change the patch introduces, and record a
 new commit that records it. This requires your working tree to be clean (no
 modifications from the HEAD commit).</p></div>
 <div class="para"><p>Note: <em>git revert</em> is used to record a new commit to reverse the
 effect of an earlier commit (often a faulty one). If you want to
 throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
 should see <a href="git-reset.html">git-reset(1)</a>, particularly the <em>--hard</em> option. If
 you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you
 should see <a href="git-checkout.html">git-checkout(1)</a>, specifically the <em>git checkout
 &lt;commit&gt; &#8212; &lt;filename&gt;</em> syntax. Take care with these alternatives as
 both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory.</p></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="vlist"><dl>
 <dt>
 &lt;commit&gt;
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Commit to revert.
  For a more complete list of ways to spell commit names, see
  "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in <a href="git-rev-parse.html">git-rev-parse(1)</a>.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt>
 -e
 </dt>
 <dt>
 --edit
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  With this option, <em>git-revert</em> will let you edit the commit
  message prior to committing the revert. This is the default if
  you run the command from a terminal.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt>
 -m parent-number
 </dt>
 <dt>
 --mainline parent-number
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
  side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
  option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
  the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
  relative to the specified parent.
 </p>
 <div class="para"><p>Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree changes
 brought in by the merge. As a result, later merges will only bring in tree
 changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the previously
 reverted merge. This may or may not be what you want.</p></div>
 <div class="para"><p>See the <a href="howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt">revert-a-faulty-merge How-To</a> for
 more details.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt>
 --no-edit
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  With this option, <em>git-revert</em> will not start the commit
  message editor.
 </p>
 </dd>
 <dt>
 -n
 </dt>
 <dt>
 --no-commit
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Usually the command automatically creates a commit with
  a commit log message stating which commit was
  reverted. This flag applies the change necessary
  to revert the named commit to your working tree
  and the index, but does not make the commit. In addition,
  when this option is used, your index does not have to match
  the HEAD commit. The revert is done against the
  beginning state of your index.
 </p>
 <div class="para"><p>This is useful when reverting more than one commits'
 effect to your index in a row.</p></div>
 </dd>
 <dt>
 -s
 </dt>
 <dt>
 --signoff
 </dt>
 <dd>
 <p>
  Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
 </p>
 </dd>
 </dl></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_author">Author</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="para"><p>Written by Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;</p></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_documentation">Documentation</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="para"><p>Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list &lt;git@vger.kernel.org&gt;.</p></div>
 </div>
 <h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
 <div class="sectionbody">
 <div class="para"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
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	<title>git-revert(1)</title>
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	<body>
	<div id="header">
	<h1>
	git-revert(1) Manual Page
	</h1>
	<h2>NAME</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<p>git-revert -
	Revert an existing commit
	</p>
	</div>
	</div>
	<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="para"><p><em>git revert</em> [--edit \| --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] <commit></p></div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="para"><p>Given one existing commit, revert the change the patch introduces, and record a
	new commit that records it. This requires your working tree to be clean (no
	modifications from the HEAD commit).</p></div>
	<div class="para"><p>Note: <em>git revert</em> is used to record a new commit to reverse the
	effect of an earlier commit (often a faulty one). If you want to
	throw away all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you
	should see <a href="git-reset.html">git-reset(1)</a>, particularly the <em>--hard</em> option. If
	you want to extract specific files as they were in another commit, you
	should see <a href="git-checkout.html">git-checkout(1)</a>, specifically the <em>git checkout
	<commit> — <filename></em> syntax. Take care with these alternatives as
	both will discard uncommitted changes in your working directory.</p></div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="vlist"><dl>
	<dt>
	<commit>
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Commit to revert.
	For a more complete list of ways to spell commit names, see
	"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in <a href="git-rev-parse.html">git-rev-parse(1)</a>.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt>
	-e
	</dt>
	<dt>
	--edit
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	With this option, <em>git-revert</em> will let you edit the commit
	message prior to committing the revert. This is the default if
	you run the command from a terminal.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt>
	-m parent-number
	</dt>
	<dt>
	--mainline parent-number
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
	side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This
	option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
	the mainline and allows revert to reverse the change
	relative to the specified parent.
	</p>
	<div class="para"><p>Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree changes
	brought in by the merge. As a result, later merges will only bring in tree
	changes introduced by commits that are not ancestors of the previously
	reverted merge. This may or may not be what you want.</p></div>
	<div class="para"><p>See the <a href="howto/revert-a-faulty-merge.txt">revert-a-faulty-merge How-To</a> for
	more details.</p></div>
	</dd>
	<dt>
	--no-edit
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	With this option, <em>git-revert</em> will not start the commit
	message editor.
	</p>
	</dd>
	<dt>
	-n
	</dt>
	<dt>
	--no-commit
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Usually the command automatically creates a commit with
	a commit log message stating which commit was
	reverted. This flag applies the change necessary
	to revert the named commit to your working tree
	and the index, but does not make the commit. In addition,
	when this option is used, your index does not have to match
	the HEAD commit. The revert is done against the
	beginning state of your index.
	</p>
	<div class="para"><p>This is useful when reverting more than one commits'
	effect to your index in a row.</p></div>
	</dd>
	<dt>
	-s
	</dt>
	<dt>
	--signoff
	</dt>
	<dd>
	<p>
	Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.
	</p>
	</dd>
	</dl></div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_author">Author</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="para"><p>Written by Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com></p></div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_documentation">Documentation</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="para"><p>Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.</p></div>
	</div>
	<h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
	<div class="sectionbody">
	<div class="para"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
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