Revert a range of commits in git
What version of Git are you using?
Reverting multiple commits in only supported in Git1.7.2+: see "Rollback to an old commit using revert multiple times." for more details.
The current git revert
man page is only for the current Git version (1.7.4+).
As the OP Alex Spurling reports in the comments:
Upgrading to 1.7.4 works fine.
To answer my own question, this is the syntax I was looking for:
git revert B^..D
B^
means "the first parent commit of B": that allows to include B
in the revert.
See "git rev-parse
SPECIFYING REVISIONS section" which include the <rev>^
, e.g. HEAD^
syntax: see more at "What does the caret (^
) character mean?")
Note that each reverted commit is committed separately.
Henrik N clarifies in the comments:
git revert OLDER_COMMIT^..NEWER_COMMIT
As shown below, you can revert without committing right away:
git revert -n OLDER_COMMIT^..NEWER_COMMIT
git commit -m "revert OLDER_COMMIT to NEWER_COMMIT"
If you want to revert commit range B to D (at least in git version 2) in a single commit, you can do
git revert -n B^..D
This revert the changes done by commits from B's parent commit (excluded) to the D commit (included), but doesn't create any commit with the reverted changes. The revert only modifies the working tree and the index.
Don't forgot to commit the changes after
git commit -m "revert commit range B to D"
You can also revert multiple unrelated commits in a single commit, using same method. for example to revert B and D but not C
git revert -n B D
git commit -m "Revert commits B and D"
Reference: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-revert.html
Thanks Honza Haering for the correction
Doing git revert OLDER_COMMIT^..NEWER_COMMIT
didn't work for me.
I used git revert -n OLDER_COMMIT^..NEWER_COMMIT
and everything is good. I'm using git version 1.7.9.6
.