7.11 Git revert (Revert the file changes with new commit)

• In Git, the term revert is used to revert some changes.
• The git revert command is used to apply revert operation.
• it will create a new change with the opposite effect and thereby undo the specific commit.
• Generally, git revert is a commit.

(i) Created 3 files with 3 commits as below

(ii) Let’s add one more file with commit and will see logs

(iii) Now we need to rollback,

With some reason we don’t need the changes made by commit file-commit-D-1

So here reverting to file-C-commit

Observations :

• It added a new commit with changes
• Changes shows that file-C deleted at working directory
• Means it will revert to that commit stage without that committed files(it removes the files which committed by that specific commit)
• Insteading of moving back to old commit , it will create a new commit
• So in real time it will not delete any files from the any commit

Reset(if we need the files back) :