git revert

NAME
       git-revert - Revert an existing commit


SYNOPSIS
       git revert [--edit | --no-edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] <commit>


DESCRIPTION
       Given one existing commit, revert the change the patch introduces, and
       record a new commit that records it. This requires your working tree to
       be clean (no modifications from the HEAD commit).


       Note: git revert is used to record a new commit to reverse the effect
       of an earlier commit (often a faulty one). If you want to throw away
       all uncommitted changes in your working directory, you should see git-
       reset(1), particularly the --hard option. If you want to extract
       specific files as they were in another commit, you should see git-
       checkout(1), specifically the git checkout <commit> — <filename>
       syntax. Take care with these alternatives as both will discard
       uncommitted changes in your working directory.


OPTIONS
       <commit>
  Commit to revert. For a more complete list of ways to spell commit
  names, see "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in git-rev-parse(1).


       -e, --edit
  With this option, git revert will let you edit the commit message
  prior to committing the revert. This is the default if you run the
  command from a terminal.


       -m parent-number, --mainline parent-number
  Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
  side of the merge should be considered the mainline. This option
  specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of the mainline and
  allows revert to reverse the change relative to the specified
  parent.


  Reverting a merge commit declares that you will never want the tree
  changes brought in by the merge. As a result, later merges will
  only bring in tree changes introduced by commits that are not
  ancestors of the previously reverted merge. This may or may not be
  what you want.


  See the revert-a-faulty-merge How-To[1] for more details.


       --no-edit
  With this option, git revert will not start the commit message
  editor.


       -n, --no-commit
  Usually the command automatically creates a commit with a commit
  log message stating which commit was reverted. This flag applies
  the change necessary to revert the named commit to your working
  tree and the index, but does not make the commit. In addition, when
  this option is used, your index does not have to match the HEAD
  commit. The revert is done against the beginning state of your
  index.


  This is useful when reverting more than one commits´ effect to your
  index in a row.


       -s, --signoff
  Add Signed-off-by line at the end of the commit message.