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From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Reverting to old commit
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 22:17:08 +0200
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> Then gitk's "reset ... branch to here" could help you. Right-click
> the desired commit and reset the branch.

DON'T do this though if you have published the branch somewhere.

Do "git-revert -n" on all the commits after the buggy one in that case, 
starting from the last, then "git commit".

Paolo