Question

I need to test an older version (commit) of some code from github. I made git clone and then

git revert $id

where &id was id of the version that i need to check. I got this error:

error: could not revert 9a0d90d... Version 1.2.1
hint: after resolving the conflicts, mark the corrected paths
hint: with 'git add <paths>' or 'git rm <paths>'

I made no changes to any files after clone.

What am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

If you any to test an older version, you should create a branch directly from your older id

git checkout -b test $id

git revert tries to compute a new commit which would cancel changes introduced since $id. Conflicts can occurs when computing the negative merge.
You don’t need that for consulting/testing an older revision.
And if you need to make any changes in the context of that test, you will already be in a ‘test‘ branch.