GIT – How to Reverse a Commit

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I'm not really familiar with how git works. I pushed a commit by mistake and want to revert it. I did a

git reset --hard HEAD~1

Beware Fellow Googlers: This does not only revert the commit, but discards all file changes!

and now the project is reverted on my machine, but not on github. If I try to push this code, I get the error 'Your branch is behind 'origin/master' by 1 commit, and can be fast-forwarded.' How do I remove this commit from github?

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This article has an excellent explanation as to how to go about various scenarios (where a commit has been done as well as the push OR just a commit, before the push):

From the article, the easiest command I saw to revert a previous commit by its commit id, was:

git revert dd61ab32

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Git Tutorial – How to Revert Initial Commit

You just need to delete the branch you are on. You can't use git branch -D as this has a safety check against doing this. You can use update-ref to do this.

git update-ref -d HEAD

Do not use rm -rf .git or anything like this as this will completely wipe your entire repository including all other branches as well as the branch that you are trying to reset.

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