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Subject: Re: git revert with partial commit.
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Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com> writes:

> Because the commit I want to revert is done a long time ago, which is
> not the parent of the commit I'm currently on, so I can't use the `~1`
> which indicates that I want to go back one commit from my current
> position.

You *can* use HEAD~1.  After the git revert, a new commit has been
created, and so HEAD~1 refers to the state of things before running git
revert.