GIT UNDO COMMIT BEFORE PUSH UPDATE

Whenever you force push, it can cause an issue for other users who have branches checked out.

GIT UNDO COMMIT BEFORE PUSH UPDATE

(Quick note: that first snippet will update your local branch as well as the remote the second one only updates the remote.) What’s the impact? This will restore the state of the branch to the state before the forced push. Or just: git push -f origin abcdef0:branchname Once you have the previous commit ID, you can reset to that and force push again: git checkout branchname # if you're not on it already

If the git log looks familiar (I also recommend tig for browsing your repository, and you can even run tig abcdef0 to look at the log from a given commit, which won't affect your reflog), then you can be confident that you're resetting to the right place. If you want to confirm that the ID you've grabbed from one of the above methods is correct, simply check it out: git checkout abcdef0Īnd have a look around. Only works if someone else hasn't pushed to the remote.

Similarly, will be the prior value of the ref on the remote.

(But etc will allow you to go further back.) Only works if you haven't done any other commits to your local branch.

(or if you are not on that branch) is the prior value of that reference.

These are basically just references to different points on the reflog: Previous referenceĪ couple of commit references might be useful here. This should show you your forced update ( 1234567) and the previous commit ID ( abcdef0) as the top two lines. The most helpful command here is git reflog show remotes/origin/branchname. You basically want to go back to the line in question (where you had checked out your branch before the changes) and grab the commit ID from the first column. The output of git reflog tells you the chronological history of what you did. Here, abcdef0 was the previous HEAD (your A) and 1234567 was what you forced it to be instead. To abcdef0.1234567 HEAD -> branchname (forced update) If you're lucky enough to have the terminal open still, there will be some output when the push was made that looks like this. There are a few ways to find out the original HEAD before the push: Terminal scrollback

Git undo commit before push