Question

I moved some commits to another branch by

git checkout -b old-state 0d1d7fc32

Now I want to push my local master state to master but

Everything up-to-date

occurs. How can I revert original state?

Answer 1

Let’s sum things up:

• you have pushed your local state of master to origin/master
• you did something wrong with that
• you want to reset master to revision 0d1d7fc32
• you also want origin/master to point to 0d1d7fc32

This is how to achieve that:

1. reset your local master branch to 0d1d7fc32:
   git checkout master
git reset --hard 0d1d7fc32

2. Make origin/master and master equal:
   git push -f origin master:master

Done.

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Do not confuse Git commands with those you might know from other VCS. I know that there are some VCS where checkout means

bring the working copy to revision whatever

This is not the case with Git. Maybe you want to browse http://git-scm.com/ to get a first impression what it’s all about and then read a book or so.

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Original answer:
git checkout -b old-state 0d1d7fc32 creates a local branch called old-state whose last commit is that one with the SHA d1d7fc32.

I assume you want to have origin/master on the same state as your local master branch.

In that case, do a

git push -f origin master:master

to make them equal.

git checkout doesn’t move anything. It just creates a new branch called old-state that shares the same history like the current branch. If you pass a revision number, it shares the same history until (and including) the given revision.