Throw away local commits in Git

If your excess commits are only visible to you, you can just do git reset --hard origin/<branch_name> to move back to where the origin is. This will reset the state of the repository to the previous commit, and it will discard all local changes.

Doing a git revert makes new commits to remove old commits in a way that keeps everyone's history sane.

Simply delete your local master branch and recreate it like so:

git branch -D master
git checkout origin/master -b master

Delete the most recent commit, without destroying the work you've done:

git reset --soft HEAD~1

Delete the most recent commit and remove changes:

git reset --hard HEAD~1

Try:

git reset --hard <the sha1 hash>

to reset your head to wherever you want to be. Use gitk to see which commit you want to be at. You can do reset within gitk as well.