git revert : Undoing Commit Safely

Theory

• Used to undo a commit safely
• Creates a new commit that reverses the changes of a previous commit
• Does not rewrite history (safe for shared/public branches)
• Preferred over git reset on main / master
• Fixing it old mistake without erase it.

Commands

git revert <commit-hash>     # Revert a specific commit
git revert HEAD              # Revert the latest commit

git revert --no-commit <commit-hash>  # Revert but do not auto-commit

• Opens an editor to confirm the revert commit message
• The original commit remains in history

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Summary

• reset → removes commits (history rewrite)
• revert → adds a new commit to undo changes