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In this article, we will see how to revert multiple commits in Git.

In Git, we may have completed many commits for some feature development, or submitted some bug fixes.

We might now decide to abandon this work. Therefore, to restore the repository to the state it was in before we made these changes, we need to revert the multiple commits that we made.

We can git revertrevert multiple commits in Git using the command.

Another way to revert multiple commits is to use git resetthe command.

We will now illustrate them with an example.

git revertRevert multiple commits in Git using

Suppose we made multiple commits for some bug fixes.

We can see these commits in Git's log as shown below.

$ git log --oneline
17b787d bug3 fixed
1fefb57 bug2 fixed
8b3560b bug1 fixed
784065c feature1 developed
...

Now, we've decided to abandon those bug fixes and restore the repository to bug1 fixedits pre-state state.

Therefore, we can use the -d command with --no-committhe -p option git revert. The syntax of the command is git revert --no-commit <commit>.

So, to revert the three commits of the bug fix that we had done, we need to do the following.

$ git revert --no-commit 17b787d784065c
$ git revert --no-commit 1fefb57
$ git revert --no-commit 8b3560b

As a result, the repository in Git is now in bug1 fixedthe state it was in before the commit.

We sha1reverted each commit using its name.

We need to commit this state of the working tree in the Git repository as shown below.

$ git commit -m "the fixes for bugs 1 2 3 reverted"

git resetRevert multiple commits in Git using

Suppose we have some merge commits in the repository. Then git revertthe above solution using will not work.

In this case, we need to use git resetthe command.

So, to revert multiple commits using in Git git reset, we need to do the following.

$ git reset --hard 784065c
$ git reset --soft ORIG_HEAD
$ git commit

Therefore, we use git resetthe command to revert the repository to the commit in the commit history immediately before the first bug fix, 784065c feature1 developedi.e.

So this works even if we have some merge commits.