From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Arup Rakshit <aruprakshit@rocketmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to restore changes to the remote master branch to its previous stage ?
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 09:18:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5392BCD6.9070603@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409256.vCu7BMQsbW@linux-wzza.site>
Am 07.06.2014 08:07, schrieb Arup Rakshit:
> Hi,
>
> I am working in a project, where I am using *Git*. Today, I have been advised
> by my manager to do some change and it was an urgent request. I did the change
> and tested also, All was working fine. The big mistake I did, all the changes I
> made in the *master* branch without creating a topic a branch. So, once I done
> with the changes I did *git push origin master* and the changed got merged to
> *master* branch of the remote repository. I know this is not a good practice,
> all happened accidentally.
>
> Now my question is in such a case, if I see, something wrong I pushed and
> merged to the remote repo's *master* branch, how to restore it to its previous
> stage using *git* ?
Assuming that the remote master branch is tracked in your local
repository, the following should do it:
git push origin origin/master@{1}:master
The plus forces a non-fast-forward push. See 'man gitrevisions' about
the foo@{1} syntax before you run the command.
-- Hannes
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2014-06-07 6:07 How to restore changes to the remote master branch to its previous stage ? Arup Rakshit
2014-06-07 7:18 ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
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