Git - rollback commit (using git reset --hard)

In this quick article we would like to show how to rollback pushed commmit with git with git reset --hard command.

Quick solution:

git reset --hard MY_COMMIT_HASH
git push --force

Note: --hard parameter is optional.

Full example

In this section you can see full example how to rollback commit with git reset --hard.

Note: using this approach, it is good to notify other people in team about rolling back to previous version.

Simple steps:

1. find commit hash you want to recover

   $ git log --graph
   
   * commit 205c851ba0507d04e5e3f00ee48fb2ac01f4fd80 (HEAD -> 2020_03_15_ui, origin/2020_03_15_ui)
   | Author: john <john@mail.com>
   | Date:   Thu Jul 16 18:50:28 2020 +0200
   |
   |     UI: updated REST API for new backend
   |
   * commit 2ec125f7eba3238bcfe2e22b9c44b7c6e22e7052
   | Author: john <john@mail.com>
   | Date:   Tue Jul 14 19:43:49 2020 +0200
   |
   |     UI: common footer component for all service
   |
   * commit c9b6a24575c9cdf1f43da3d45cde00148e7c75a7
   | Author: john <john@mail.com>
   | Date:   Tue Jul 14 17:22:19 2020 +0200
   |
   |     UI: removed unused code
   |
   * commit 465755bead3d3afe386e702540644427c250bcb0
   | Author: john <john@mail.com>
   | Date:   Tue Jul 14 16:29:04 2020 +0200
   |
   |     UI: new routing rules
   |

    
2. reset changed to proper commit
   (e.g. we want to recover source code to 465755bead3d3afe386e702540644427c250bcb0)

   $ git reset --hard 465755bead3d3afe386e702540644427c250bcb0
   
   HEAD is now at 465755be UI: new routing rules
   
   $ git log --graph
   
   * commit 465755bead3d3afe386e702540644427c250bcb0 (HEAD -> 2020_03_15_ui, origin/2020_03_15_ui)
   | Author: john <john@mail.com>
   | Date:   Tue Jul 14 16:29:04 2020 +0200
   |
   |     UI: new routing rules
   |
   * commit 401d25b3a48c96c08a453def29f9e1df5ec3f25a
   | Author: john <john@mail.com>
   | Date:   Tue Jul 14 14:56:42 2020 +0200
   |
   |     UI: improved left page menu - expand/collapse for submenus
   |
   *   commit b29eca1e52bc0bd2eb7d211158d060338605a9ca
   |\  Merge: c189dc14 f3e85ee7
   | | Author: john <john@mail.com>
   | | Date:   Tue Jul 14 02:48:02 2020 +0200
   | |
   | |     Merge branch '2020_03_15_ui' of https://bitbucket.org/great-team/shop into 2020_03_15_ui
   | |
   | * commit f3e85ee7049dc8d89a7a309d6fe2ea9d3c64a63d
   | | Author: john <john@mail.com>
   | | Date:   Tue Jul 14 00:31:57 2020 +0200
   | |
   | |     UI: fix for image orientation on mobile devices
   | |

    
3. pushing changes with --force

   Note: notify other team members that you push your changes to remote repository.

   $ git push --force
   
   Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
   remote:
   remote: Create pull request for 2020_03_15_ui:
   remote:   https://bitbucket.org/great-team/shop/pull-requests/new?source=2020_03_15_ui&t=1
   remote:
   To https://bitbucket.org/great-team/shop.git
    + 205c851b...465755be 2020_03_15_ui -> 2020_03_15_ui (forced update)