Undoing a Git pull
This tutorial demonstrates undoing a git pull to restore a git repository to a previous state using git hard reset.
Undoing a Git pull
To undo a git pull with a hard reset, we use git reset --hard
the command and specify HEAD
.
Let us view the commits we have made on the git repository using the git repository command with the -p --oneline
and -d --graph
options as shown below.git log
We have made three commits to the repository, the most recent being * bdb9fc2
.
To undo the most recent commit using a hard reset, we use the --hard
-unreset command with the -reset option git reset
as shown below. HEAD^
-unreset specifies to go back to the commit before HEAD.
git log
The output of the command shows that we have returned to the previous commit.
As shown in the figure below, we can also use HEAD~1
to specify to return to HEAD
the previous commit. HEAD~2
It means to return to HEAD
the two previous commits.
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