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Asked: 2026-05-13T06:18:30+00:00

I’m not clear on how git revert works. For example, I want to revert

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I’m not clear on how git revert works. For example, I want to revert to a commit six commits behind the head, reverting all the changes in the intermediary commits in between.

Say its SHA hash is 56e05fced214c44a37759efa2dfc25a65d8ae98d. Then why can’t I just do something like:

git revert 56e05fced214c44a37759efa2dfc25a65d8ae98d
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  1. Editorial Team

    If you want to commit on top of the current HEAD with the exact state at a different commit, undoing all the intermediate commits, then you can use reset to create the correct state of the index to make the commit.

    # Reset the index and working tree to the desired tree
# Ensure you have no uncommitted changes that you want to keep
git reset --hard 56e05fced

# Move the branch pointer back to the previous HEAD
git reset --soft "HEAD@{1}"

git commit -m "Revert to 56e05fced"
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