How to remove commits from a pull request

Solution 1:

People wouldn't like to see a wrong commit and a revert commit to undo changes of the wrong commit. This pollutes commit history.

Here is a simple way for removing the wrong commit instead of undoing changes with a revert commit.

1. git checkout my-pull-request-branch

2. git rebase -i HEAD~n // where n is the number of last commits you want to include in interactive rebase.

3. Replace pick with drop for commits you want to discard.
4. Save and exit.
5. git push --force

Solution 2:

You have several techniques to do it.

This post - read the part about the revert will explain in details what we want to do and how to do it.

Here is the most simple solution to your problem:

# Checkout the desired branch
git checkout <branch>

# Undo the desired commit
git revert <commit>

# Update the remote with the undo of the code
git push origin <branch>

The revert command will create a new commit with the undo of the original commit.

Solution 3:

If you're removing a commit and don't want to keep its changes @ferit has a good solution.

If you want to add that commit to the current branch, but doesn't make sense to be part of the current pr, you can do the following instead:

1. use git rebase -i HEAD~n
2. Swap the commit you want to remove to the bottom (most recent) position
3. Save and exit
4. use git reset HEAD^ --soft to uncommit the changes and get them back in a staged state.
5. use git push --force to update the remote branch without your removed commit.

Now you'll have removed the commit from your remote, but will still have the changes locally.